Bug ID 721274: ActiveX and Java based RDP resources are not supported

Last Modified: Sep 14, 2023

Affected Product(s):
BIG-IP APM, Install/Upgrade(all modules)

Known Affected Versions:
13.1.0, 13.1.0.1, 13.1.0.2, 13.1.0.3, 13.1.0.4, 13.1.0.5, 13.1.0.6, 13.1.0.7, 13.1.0.8, 13.1.1, 13.1.1.2, 13.1.1.3, 13.1.1.4, 13.1.1.5, 13.1.3, 13.1.3.1, 13.1.3.2, 13.1.3.3, 13.1.3.4, 13.1.3.5, 13.1.3.6, 13.1.4, 13.1.4.1, 13.1.5, 13.1.5.1, 14.0.0, 14.0.0.1, 14.0.0.2, 14.0.0.3, 14.0.0.4, 14.0.0.5, 14.0.1, 14.0.1.1, 14.1.0, 14.1.0.1, 14.1.0.2, 14.1.0.3, 14.1.0.5, 14.1.0.6, 14.1.2, 14.1.2.1, 14.1.2.2, 14.1.2.3, 14.1.2.4, 14.1.2.5, 14.1.2.6, 14.1.2.7, 14.1.2.8, 14.1.3, 14.1.3.1, 14.1.4, 14.1.4.1, 14.1.4.2, 14.1.4.3, 14.1.4.4, 14.1.4.5, 14.1.4.6, 14.1.5, 14.1.5.1, 14.1.5.2, 14.1.5.3, 14.1.5.4, 14.1.5.6, 15.0.0, 15.0.1, 15.0.1.1, 15.0.1.2, 15.0.1.3, 15.0.1.4

Fixed In:
15.1.0

Opened: May 22, 2018

Severity: 3-Major

Symptoms

Starting with release 15.1.0, APM Webtop does not support ActiveX and Java based RDP resources. This feature was removed in BIG-IP APM release 14.1.0.

Impact

Starting with release 15.1.0, RDP resources can be accessed only using native RDP clients. Native RDP support was added in APM release 13.0.0. When upgrading from older BIG-IP releases where ActiveX or Java RDP resources are supported, and the configuration contains such resources, following actions are taken: -- These resources are converted to Native RDP resources. -- The converted resources are then removed from the 'Resource Assign' and 'Advanced Resource Assign' agents. These are the only agents that currently have RDP resources. The converted Native RDP resources are removed from the agents because Native RDP requires additional configuration (e.g., a server SSL profile) for using it in a policy. Hence the administrator must manually re-add the converted RDP resources (along with required profiles) to make them available to APM end users.

Conditions

APM policy exposes ActiveX or Java based RDP resources

Workaround

None.

Fix Information

RDP resources can be accessed using native RDP clients.

Behavior Change

Guides & references

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