Splunk Single Sign-On With F5 Big-IP

[da7rutrak]

I am curious if anyone has attempted to or is currently using an F5 Big-IP LTM as a reverse proxy for Splunk web. I've consulted Google U, but haven't been successful.

[alacercogitatus]

So apparently there is some interest in this. 😄

Here's how I have done it:

First - Setup Authentication to LDAP/AD in Splunk. Make Sure you have the right authorization settings.
Second - Setup The SSO configuration options in Splunk

SSOMode = permissive
trustedIP = <your-snat-pool-IPs>
remoteUser = <HEADER THAT CONTAINS USERNAME>

Third - Setup the F5 VIPs normally, with the Splunk Search heads as the pool. Using what ever SSO software you want (we used OAM), make sure you set the header that corresponds with the remoteUser setting.

Boom, done! There really is more than that, but this are the simplest steps I could think up.

Questions?

[jkommeri]

I am also interested in using Big-IP for the same purpose. Though, I am not a network expert. Can you elaborate this "Using what ever SSO software you want (we used OAM)" part a bit more?

[alacercogitatus]

If you are still interested in this - respond back - I've done it.

[kbaldwin]

Interested as well. Getting ready to use F5 for SSO with a single search head and ultimately looking to have Splunk mobile traffic pass thru an F5 VS as well.

[da7rutrak]

@alacerogitatus - yes, still interested. I suspect it requires the ASM, but please share!

[dandaily]

I am very interested in this option. I have an F5 load balancer in front of my search head cluster., and I am looking to configure SSO.

[stemo76]

I too would like to know. We use an F5 to load level across 4 search heads. Would be nice to enable SSO.