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prt1969_120570
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Apr 21, 2015

Comprehensive LTM syslog list

Is there a reason why F5 does not have a comprehensive list of ltm syslog messages that includes an explanation and a recommended action for each? Anyone have any suggestions? I need to go thru 3000+...
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Mike_Kahler_488
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Apr 22, 2015

As far as I know, F5 does not have documentation for every log message. On my 11.5.x box, there are >5000 messages:

 

wc -l /var/run/bigip_error_maps.dat 5240 /var/run/bigip_error_maps.dat

 

sol6420: The /var/run/bigip_error_maps.dat file maps the alertd process input from the syslog-ng utility to an alert name

 

They do have documentation in the manual for SNMP traps which are most likely the most important log messages. That is a pretty good document:

 

Monitoring BIG-IP System Traffic with SNMP

 

https://support.f5.com/kb/en-us/products/big-ip_ltm/manuals/product/bigip-external-monitoring-implementations-11-4-0/8.html?sr=41320821

 

Hope this helps.