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Note: This article has been archived and is no longer maintained.
This article applies to BIG-IP 12.x – 13.x. For information about other versions, refer to the following articles:
K15263: BIG-IP APM daemons (11.x)
K61101414: BIG-IP APM daemons (14.x – 17.x)
When the BIG-IP® system is licensed with BIG-IP APM®, a separate set of processes is initiated in addition to the standard set of BIG-IP processes. The following table lists the core BIG-IP APM services, and indicates the impact to the BIG-IP APM system operation if the service is not running:
| Daemon | Description | Impact if not running | Relevant log file |
|---|---|---|---|
| acctd |
The RADIUS accounting daemon used by BIG-IP APM to send RADIUS accounting start and stop messages to external RADIUS servers. Note: F5 removed this daemon in BIG-IP 13.1.0 and replaced with a native Traffic Management Microkernel (TMM) implementation. |
RADIUS accounting messages are not sent to external RADIUS servers | /var/log/apm |
| aced | The aced process provides RSA SecurID authentication functionality for BIG-IP APM’s access policy engine. | RSA SecurID authentication fails | /var/log/apm |
| apmd | The apmd process executes access policy for a user session; this includes Authentication, Authorization, hosting Accounting, and Audit. It also provides an MPI interface, as well as support for access control protocol. | No access policy enforcement for user session or any MPI-reliant processes, such as rewrite and websso | /var/log/apm |
| antserver | The antserver process allows Secure Web Gateway (SWG) to dynamically filter web content. | No dynamic web content filtering | /var/log/apm |
| dnscached | The dnscached process provides DNS cache functionality to BIG-IP APM subsystems. | BIG-IP APM DNS performance is impaired | /var/log/apm |
| eam | The eam process provides external access management for 3rd party identity integration, such as Oracle Access Manager (OAM) single sign-on (SSO). | OAM SSO authentication fails | /var/log/apm |
| eca | The eca process provides the client-side NT Lan Manager (NTLM) authentication mechanism. | BIG-IP APM is unable to authenticate using NTLM | /var/log/apm |
| httpd_sam | Used to serve BIG-IP-generated user-facing HTML pages, such as Login pages, to connected users. | No user display when connecting to APM. | /var/log/httpd/access_log |
| localdbmgr | Maintains entries in the LocalDB, where states of static and dynamic users are stored. | ‘User not found’ errors when connecting. | /var/log/apm |
| mdmsyncmgr | The mdmsyncmgr process fetch MDM-managed endpoint list from MDM servers and stores it in local MySQL database. | BIG-IP APM is unable to fetch MDM-managed endpoint list. | /var/log/apm |
| nlad | The nlad process establishes communication channels to the Domain Controller (DC) for NTLM authentication. | No NTLM communication to back-end DC | /var/log/apm |
| oauth |
Oauth is a plug-in providing OAuth Authorization Server functionality for the BIG-IP APM system. Note: This daemon was introduced in 13.x. |
OAuth Opaque Tokens fail | /var/log/apm |
| omapd | The omapd process provides the IF-MAP server implementation for SWG and AFM user identification. | No user identification for SWG | /var/log/omapd |
| ping_access_agent |
Ping_Access_Agent provides integration functionality with Ping Identity for the BIG-IP APM system. Note: This daemon was introduced in 13.x. |
PingIdentity authentication fail | /var/log/apm |
| rba | The rba process provides support for client-side Kerberos authentication. | No Kerberos authentication | /var/log/apm |
| rewrite | The rewrite process rewrites links in web content for Portal Access. | Portal Access web links are not rewritten | /var/log/rewrite |
| samlidpd | The samlidpd process interacts with the mcpd process to automate SAML IdP connector creation. | SAML IdP connector creation fails | /var/log/saml_automation.log |
| urldb | The urldb process categorizes incoming URLs for SWG. | No SWG URL categorization | /var/log/apm, /var/log/urldb-trace.log |
| urldbmgrd | The urldbmgrd process downloads and indexes the URL categorization database for use by the urldb process. | URL categorization for SWG is impaired | /var/log/apm, /var/log/urldbmgr-trace.log |
| vdi | The vdi process handles communication for XML-based clients and back-end systems such as Citrix and VMware View. | Citrix integration and RDP access fails | /var/log/apm |
| websso | The websso process provides Single Sign-On (SSO) functionality for the BIG-IP APM system. | SSO fails | /var/log/apm |
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