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Yiannis_CDJ_F5
Altostratus
AltostratusBIGIP CMDB info export
Hello! We have incorporated the F5 BIGIP system as a basic component of our infrastructure and we migrated several applications and services behind it. At the same time we need to insert data into a...
Hi,
So there are a couple of config files that you might be able to extract to maybe get what you need.
But that's a scp sftp transfer type things manually.
There is a restAPI on the f5 which you may be able to query to get what you need.
The first question i would ask is "how" do you want your CMDB system to be quirying things?
I take it not manually, but would a file do and you setup a parser to get the data you need.
Or does the CMDB tool or something in that pipeline have the capability of using restAPI calls to identify the information you need?
Yiannis_CDJ_F5Altostratus
AltostratusHi! Thank you for your answer. For the moment, we need a simplified solution and we don't need to link the exported info from F5 into the cmdb. We would just need to export the data either in a csv or in an html file (or in another way) in order to have the global info visible. Then when we would have visibility of the necessary info, that would be sufficient and we can inport data in the cmdb manually then.
The best example I can think is that, if a server has a problem, we need now to do the whole troubleshooting on F5 manually to find in which pool it belongs, then where is this pool used, in which VIP, if there is an irule impacting applications etc etc. On the other hand, if we could generate quickly a report, it would be much faster to track the impacted resources and see this info, even for people who are not familia with the F5.
So a file export with custom fileds could do the job (in this case we would need to corralate info inside iRules with info from LTM VIP, pools etc).
Thank you again for your help
Kind regards,
Yiannis