Puppet & F5 Connection Refused

[MrTeleBird]

Hello,

when I run on my proxy server:

# puppet device --debug --deviceconf /etc/puppet/device/F5-lb-test.conf

I get this error:
info: starting applying configuration to F5-lb-test at https://operating:operating4lbtest@F5-lb-test/Common
debug: Puppet::Device::F5: connecting to F5 device F5-lb-test.
debug: Puppet::Device::F5: connecting to partition Common.
err: Can't load f5 for F5-lb-test: Connection refused - connect(2) (://:0)

The credentials are ok. The F5 GUI uses a self-signed certificate. Could that be a problem?? maybe I need first to locally intall the self-signed certificate somewhere??

Any help will be really appreciated.

Thanks!

[Gavin Williams]

Hi there,

I've done some work with the F5 network device support in our env, and haven't had any issues with self-signed certs...

Sounds more likely that it's a network/firewall issue...
Can you telnet from the puppet server to F5 on port 443?

Cheers
Gavin

[MrTeleBird]

Hi Gavin!

ok, yes that make sense. We do have a firewall in-between and I had only enable access to the BIG-IP from the proxy not from the pupept master. I will give it a try. Thanks a lot for the hint!

Cheers,
Cesar

[MrTeleBird]

No, still not workinig :-(, same error as before. I verified the logs on the firewall and there is no more traffic blocked from puppet master and from the proxy. Additionally, I can telnet my F5 on port 443 without any problem from both servers.

Any other idea what could be the causing this problem??

Thanks