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dabance
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Nov 28, 2018

filter based on "User-Agent" , irule

I want permit traffic to a VIP only if the User-Agent matches "Chrome/52.0.2743.98" Does the below irule works?. Also i want to add logging.   when HTTP_REQUEST { if {[HTTP::header "User-Agent"] ...
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PeteWhite
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Nov 28, 2018

Yes, that iRule should do the job although it is a little blunt. You also want to consider whether contains is good enough or you should have exact matching.

Logging can be done locally to /var/log/ltm with the log command eg 

log local0.debug "User Agent: [HTTP::header user-agent]"
but ideally you would do regular logging to a remote server via HSL.

You may also want to check if the User-Agent header exists - note that HTTP headers are non case sensitive.