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khiali_130513
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Oct 03, 2013

Display logs and last change on LTM via automation !!

Hi All   We have couple of BIG-IP LTM devices (1900, 3600, 6900) and I face 2 issues on daily basis:-   1 - LTMs are out of synch most of the time. These are mostly because of any change in the...
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Kevin_Stewart
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Oct 03, 2013

In both cases you may want to consider:

 

  1. Enabling MCP logging (logs changes to the configuration).

     

  2. Configuring syslog to send MCP logs to a remote data collection and analysis service (like Splunk). There you'll get all of the GUI-based query capabilities that you need.

     

  3. Optional to 1 and 2 above, if your platforms support Log Publishing, you can configure a filter to collect debug message from MCP and MCPD and send to remote syslog via high speed logging.

     

On the platforms that support 11.4, you can also enable auto-sync between HA pairs.