View Security Servers Behind an SSL Terminating F5 Load Balancer
We’re working on remote access for a View solution at one of my customers right now. We’ve got a pair of external user Connection Brokers, each partnered with a Security Server. We’ve also got an F5 Big-IP load balancer sitting in front of the Security Servers, giving them some protection from the big bad ‘net and, more importantly, providing load balancing services. We found that the process was a bit more circumspect than I had expected, involving instructions from several documents, so I’m consolidating our process here. At first, we followed the instructions from the F5 View Deployment Guide , which got us really close to what we needed. It’s worth noting that the “External URL” and “PCoIP External URL” fields should be the public address of the F5, even though the document uses an internal address in its examples. We were able to connect to the system by our public name and it presented the list of desktops to our test account. Howev...