HID ActivID 4TRESS AAA Server and F5 BIG-IP - Manual (Page 4)

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2.0 BIG-IP APM Configuration
This chapter describes how to manage F5 APM. When a user signs into an F5 APM appliance, The F5 appliance
forwards the user’s credentials to this authentication server to verify the user’s identity. You will create an
authentication server:
An ActivIdentity 4TRESS AAA RADIUS Server to validate the user’s one time password generated by a Web
token.
2.1 Procedure 1: Create New Radius Server Instance
When using an external RADIUS server to authenticate F5 users, you must configure the server to recognize the
F5 as a client and specify a shared secret for the RADIUS server to use to authenticate the client request. To
configure a connection to the RADIUS server on F5 APM appliance, perform the following steps.
To define the RADIUS Server instance, perform the following steps.
1. On the main tab of the navigation pane, expand Access Policy, and then click AAA Servers.
2. Click the plus sign next to RADIUS.
3. Click Create.