Last Modified: Jul 12, 2023
Affected Product(s):
BIG-IQ Network Security (AFM)
Known Affected Versions:
5.1.0
Opened: Mar 03, 2017 Severity: 3-Major
Discovery of the Advanced Firewall service may fail with an error message similar to: check if iControl REST service is running on the BIG-IP
The Advanced Firewall service cannot be discovered on the BIG-IQ due to a BIG-IP REST service issue.
A BIG-IP Local Traffic service is already imported on the BIG-IQ and then the Advanced Firewall service is provisioned on the BIG-IP and that service is then discovered by the BIG-IQ.
If the discovery fails with the indicated symptoms, the restjavad service must be restarted on the BIG-IP. The user should log onto the BIG-IP shell and execute the following command: bigstart restart restjavad
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