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Stephen_Fisher_
Historic F5 Account
Mar 05, 2010

Announcing the F5 Management Pack 1.7.0: iRules-based object health events

The F5 Management Pack team has just released another version of our core Management Pack, which includes a new iRules feature and a variety of product improvements.

 

 

Our newest feature allows you to connect your iRules to the F5 Management Pack, and influence object health (e.g. LTM Virtual Server, Pool Members, Nodes, etc.) via events. We’ve also included support for 4 new PowerShell CmdLets allowing you to upload and remove iRules to your F5 BIG-IP device, and register and unregister iRules with LTM Virtual Servers. We’re really excited about the potential for iRules integration, which should enable a host of interesting diagnostic, monitoring, and orchestration scenarios into and beyond L2-L4. Our team will be posting more information online, including samples and videos around the iRules integration.

 

 

This new release also includes some improvements to setup, licensing, and clustered RMS support.

 

 

I’d like to thank all of you, our customers and partners, for providing great feedback on the product, reporting issues with detailed info, and working with the new features as we release them.

 

 

You can always find the latest F5 Management Pack and extensions at our DevCentral Download site: http://devcentral.f5.com/Default.aspx?tabid=217

 

 

If you have questions or ideas for new features, or need support, we welcome you to post in these DevCentral Forums: http://devcentral.f5.com/Default.aspx?tabid=53&afgroup=26

 

 

Thank you,

 

Stephen Fisher

 

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  • hoolio's avatar
    hoolio
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    Mar 08, 2010
    Hi Stephen,

     

     

    It wasn't immediately clear to me what the new iRule related functionality was. But these related articles gave some good background info. Maybe others will find them useful as well:

     

     

     

    iRules and the F5 Management Pack

     

    http://devcentral.f5.com/weblogs/jbalog/archive/2010/03/05/irules-and-the-f5-management-pack.aspx

     

     

    Starting with v1.7.0.390 the F5 Management Pack (F5 MP) has some built-in diagnostic capabilities based on iRules. Messages logged within iRules could be sent directly to the F5 Monitoring Service that now has an asynchronous TCP listener specifically designed to receive and process iRule messages, and based on these messages the F5 MP can write events into the Microsoft's System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) event data source, against the F5 device monitoring objects discovered. Putting it simply, you can mark an F5 monitoring object state in SCOM, as up and down or in warning state, directly from iRules.

     

     

     

     

     

    Maintenance Mode Rules for the F5 Networks Management Pack

     

    http://devcentral.f5.com/weblogs/druddell/archive/2010/03/05/maintenance-mode-rules-for-the-f5-networks-management-pack.aspx

     

     

    A few releases ago we included a couple of new rules and new tasks to go with them. These rules and tasks will help you keep your Pool Members (LTM and GTM) in sync with your applications. These new rules are disabled by default, but we highly recommend enabling and integrating them into your deployment and existing distributed applications.

     

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    By enabling these rules, any time an LTM Pool Member or GTM Pool Member (Virtual Server) is put into maintenance mode, it will also disable the Pool Member within the interval specified in the overrides of the rule.

     

     

     

     

    Thanks, Aaron