configuring bigip for monitoring with Microsoft SCOM

Hello,

 

 

There is no special configuration required of the F5 BIG-IP appliance. The appliance may require an update to the big3d agent, depending on which version of the BIG-IP you are running, but this can be accomplished via the F5 Management Pack discovery process.

 

 

Thank you,

 

Stephen

 

F5 Networks

Hi Stephen,

 

in first thanks for the reply. The BIGIP version is 10.2.0 and then I think that big3d agent is maybe updated. So, for provide a discovery from Microsoft SCOM:

 

 

1) Could I do it like BIGIP is a UNIX/Linux device?

 

2) Should I must insert root account credentials (root/default) to perform a discovery?

 

3) Could I use a custom user for discovery it? (f.i. UserSCOM)

 

 

Thanks in advance for support

 

Best Regards

 

Fabrizio.

Hi Fabrizio,

 

 

The answers to your questions about discovering the F5 Device (BIG-IP) in SCOM are:

 

 

1) Could I do it like BIGIP is a UNIX/Linux device?

 

 

I would recommend installing the F5 Management Pack (F5 MP) and perform the F5 Device discovery from within the discovery wizard installed by the F5 MP in SCOM (and not the [native] SCOM discovery wizard). The F5 MP discovery provides full configuration discovery and statistics-collection functionality for the BIG-IP. In contrast, if you use the default SCOM discovery wizard, for discovering the BIG-IP as a Unix/Linux device, you'd only get a very limited config/stat discovery for the F5 Device, as a basic Unix/Linux platform. And we don't support this type of discovery. Nor do we support the discovery of the BIG-IP through SNMP (in case you'd thought about this alternative as well).

 

 

2) Should I must insert root account credentials (root/default) to perform a discovery?

 

 

No, you don't need root account credentials to the BIG-IP for discovering with the F5 MP. The account needs to have enough privileges to perform an iControl connection to the F5 device and also to upgrade the big3d agent, if necessary.

 

 

3) Could I use a custom user for discovery it? (f.i. UserSCOM)

 

 

When you first discover the F5 Device within the F5 MP discovery wizard you will be prompted for the BIG-IP user credentials, which will be cached within a secure token (per device) on the local system, for further (re)discovery and device connectivity. Subsequently, you can re-discover the F5 device, which is performed through an F5/SCOM task, running either as the default SCOM action account or a custom account, that you can specifiy in the task's 'Run as' option.

 

 

Let me know if these answers are good enough for you, or if you have any other questions.

 

 

Thank you,

 

Julian

 

Dear Freinds, I have installed the management pack and have also set up the monitor to monitor thr status of Poll members and I am getting alerts too , but in the alerts I would like to get the information like who has taken the pool member down , can some one help me in this..

 

See your other post for a reply:

 

 

http://devcentral.f5.com/Community/GroupDetails/tabid/1082223/asg/54/aft/1179236/showtab/groupforums/Default.aspx

 

 

Aaron