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Michel_van_der_
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Dec 12, 2003

Access to service logs

The load balancer keeps logs on when nodes are marked down, etc.

 

 

Is ths information accessible through the api?
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  • Joe_Pruitt's avatar
    Joe_Pruitt
    Dec 12, 2003
    You can use the ITCMSystem::ConfigSync::download_file() command to download log files. BIG-IP put's it's status in the system log file (/var/log/messages). This does get updated with other system messages and is rotated regularly so it might be tricky managing the content and freshness of the file. I'd be interested in hearing what you do with this.

     

     

    -Joe
  • Michel_van_der_'s avatar
    Michel_van_der_
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    Dec 12, 2003
    OK. Some of the things I was thinking of doing was to use the F5 logs

     

    to provide reports on the availability of servers, services, etc.

     

     

    We could potentially use the various F5 logs around the company to pinpoint

     

    issues and weaknesses in our infrastructure.

     

     

    I'll have to think a bit about this...

     

     

    8O