BIG3D restarts frequently after Mgmt Pack install

Your problem may be related to a known issue of the F5 Management Pack collecting CPU stats from an F5 device running a BIG-IP 9.3.1 platform. We will have a fix for this issue in our very next release of the F5 Management Pack (around mid-December, this year). You can have a workaround, by disabling the collection of the CPU stats. The SCOM collection rules related to the CPU stats are enabled by default in our F5 Management Pack. In order to disable them, you'll have to create the appropriate overrides. Here are the rules you'll need to override and disable from being collected by the F5 Management Pack:

 

 

- Device CPU Fan Speed

 

- Device CPU Processor Utilization

 

- Device CPU Temperature

 

 

I would suggest the following steps to disable these rules:

 

 

1. Open the SCOM 2007 Management Console and select the Authoring section.

 

2. Look for the F5 device CPU rules mentioned above.

 

3. For each of these rules do the following: select > right click > Overrides > Disable the Rule >For all objects of class: F5 Management Pack Monitoring Service > click Yes when prompted to override.

 

4. Go to the Monitoring section of the SCOM 2007 Management Console. Browse to Monitoring > F5 Networks > F5 Actions and select the "Refresh F5 Device Collection Rules" task under the "F5 Action Tasks" on the right.

 

5. Run the "Refresh F5 Device Collection Rule" task.

 

 

Upon the successful completion of the refresh task, the F5 device CPU stats should not be collected anymore by the F5 Management Pack and hopefully your problem would go away.

 

 

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In my suggested workaround I assumed that both of your devices in the redundant pair configuration run the same BIG-IP v.9.3.1 platform. If you need to disable the rules per certain device only, let us know and we'll assist you.

 

 

Thanks,

 

Julian