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Nimbostratus

May 17, 2020

BIG-IQ collecting BIG-IP iRule logs

Hi, With a BIG-IQ cluster and DCD managing multiple BIG-IPs, is it possible to have BIG-IQ centrally collecting iRule logs from the managed BIG-IPs? Making up a simple example of what I'm looki...

rob_carr
May 18, 2020
BIG-IQ DCD's (Data Collection Devices) can act as repositories for 'alerts, events, and statistical data from one or more BIG-IP systems', but do not store general system logs. BIG-IQ can help you create logging profiles which can be deployed across one or more BIG-IP systems and can have filters which match log messages of interest, but you need to have some remote storage and viewing system.

Here's the documentation for creating and deploying logging profiles:
https://techdocs.f5.com/en-us/bigiq-7-1-0/managing-ltm-and-network-objects-using-big-iq/managing-logs.html

rob_carr

Cirrocumulus

May 18, 2020

BIG-IQ DCD's (Data Collection Devices) can act as repositories for 'alerts, events, and statistical data from one or more BIG-IP systems', but do not store general system logs. BIG-IQ can help you create logging profiles which can be deployed across one or more BIG-IP systems and can have filters which match log messages of interest, but you need to have some remote storage and viewing system.

Here's the documentation for creating and deploying logging profiles:

https://techdocs.f5.com/en-us/bigiq-7-1-0/managing-ltm-and-network-objects-using-big-iq/managing-logs.html