Disable Advertising on Public Network

Published April 5, 2023 | Last modified March 20, 2025

Objective

This document provides instructions on how to enable the ability to disable advertisement for services on public internet at tenant-level in F5® Distributed Cloud Services. After disabling the advertisement, you can enable advertising at individual namespace-level. For information advertisement concepts, see Advertisement Policy.

Using the instructions provided in this guide, you can raise a support request to turn on disabling of advertisement on public internet tenant-level, selectively enable advertisement at namespace-level, and turn off disabling of advertisement at tenant-level.

Prerequisites

The following prerequisites apply:

A valid Account is required. If you do not have an account, see Create an Account.
A load balancer. If you do not have a load balancer, see HTTP Load Balancer.
API certificate or API token for API requests. If you do not have API certificate or token, see My Credentials.

Limitations

The following limitations apply:

Turning on and turning off the ability to disable advertisement on public internet at tenant-level is granted through support request only.
Enabling and disabling of advertising on public Internet at namespace-level is supported only using APIs.

Tenant-level vs Namespace-Level Control

After turning on the ability to disable advertisement at tenant-level, advertisement on public Internet for all namespaces is disabled. You can disable advertisement at tenant-level using a support request and then selectively turn on the ability at namespace-level using the UpdateAllowAdvertiseOnPublic API. At namespace-level, the API has the following 3 values you can set:

Default
Enable
Disable

The following table presents the behavior of advertisement for various combinations of tenant-level and namespace-level settings:

Default Disable at Tenant-Level	Allow at Namespace-Level	Advertise on Public
TRUE	Default	No
TRUE	Enable	Yes
TRUE	Disable	No
FALSE	Default	Yes
FALSE	Enable	Yes
FALSE	Disable	No

Disable Advertisement at Tenant-Level

Enabling the ability to disable the advertisement on public Internet requires you to raise a support request.

Features can be viewed and managed in multiple services.

This example shows Disable Advertising configuration in Administration.

Step 1: Raise support request to disable advertising on Internet.

From the F5® Distributed Cloud Console (Console) homepage, select Administration.

Note: Homepage is role based, and your homepage may look different due to your role customization. Select All Services drop-down menu to discover all options.

Figure: Homepage

Select Support > Requests.

Note: If options are not showing available, select Show link in Advanced nav options visible in bottom left corner. If needed, select Hide to minimize options from Advanced nav options mode.

Select Add Requests.

Figure: Support Add Request

From the Service menu, select Other.
From the Type menu, select Technical Support.
From the Topic menu, select Other.
From the Priority options, select a level to indicate this request. Normal is the default value.
In the Please provide a subject for your issue field, enter a short title for this request.
In the Please explain the problem below field, enter a detailed account for this request.
Select Submit Request.

Figure: Contact Support

Note: F5 support disables the advertisement on public networks for your tenant and confirms.

Step 2: Verify advertisement on public Internet is disabled.

Select F5 logo to open homepage navigation.
Select Multi-Cloud App Connect.
Select Virtual Hosts > HTTP Load Balancers.
Select Add HTTP Load Balancer. Or edit an existing load balancer.
Enter info requested. Refer to the HTTP Load Balancer guide.
In the Other Settings section, select Internet from the VIP Advertisement menu.

Figure: Advertise on Internet

Select Save and Exit.

An error is returned mentioning that advertisement on public internet is not allowed.

Enable Advertisement at Namespace-Level

Perform the following steps:

Step 1: Enable advertisement on public network at namespace level.

In a terminal, enter the following command:

Note: Replace <api-creds> with your API certificate file name and <namespace> with the namespace name for which you want to enable advertising on public Internet. Replace <password> with the password for your API certificate.

curl -k  -X POST --cert-type P12 --cert ~/Downloads/<api-creds>.p12:<password> https://<tenant>.console.ves.volterra.io/api/web/namespaces/<namespace>/update_allow_advertise_on_public

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Step 2: Verify that advertisement on public Internet at namespace level is allowed.

Select F5 logo to open homepage navigation to open Console homepage.
Select Multi-Cloud App Connect.
Select Virtual Hosts > HTTP Load Balancers.
Select Add HTTP Load Balancer.
Perform configuration per the instructions provided in the HTTP Load Balancer guide.
In the Other Settings section, select Internet from the VIP Advertisement menu.

Figure: Advertise on Internet

Select Save and Exit.

The load balancer is created successfully and requests to the configured domain over Internet are successful.