F5 - Command Line VIP/Pool/Node/Last UP Status Summary

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Fellow F5 Admins...&nbsp;
I have been trying to find the ideal Command Line to use on the F5 to ideally get the VIP/Pool/Node/Last UP Status Summary all in 1 line to be imported to a *.csv?&nbsp;
Thank you in advance for your Command Line Script.&nbsp;

dario_garrido · Answer

To do so, you need Bash engineering 🙂
start with:
tmsh show ltm pool  members | grep -e "Ltm::" -e "Activity" -e "State"

If you need more help, tell me and I will back to rescue.
If you don't like Bash, you can do it with python as well (using F5 SDK).
KR,
Dario.

balance5 · Answer

HiI am trying to get LTM VIP status using a python script.I can successfully pull all details of the VIP however not able to find a field in there that describes the state of the VIP (i.e. up or down).Here is an example of the JSON output for a TEST VIP:{"addressStatus": "yes","autoLasthop": "default","cmpEnabled": "yes","connectionLimit": 0,"creationTime": "2022-09-29T11:20:15Z","destination": "/Common/192.168.1.1:80","enabled": true,"fullPath": "/Common/TEST_VS","generation": 1,"gtmScore": 0,"ipProtocol": "tcp","kind": "tm:ltm:virtual:virtualstate","lastModifiedTime": "2022-09-29T11:20:15Z","mask": "255.255.255.255","mirror": "disabled","mobileAppTunnel": "disabled","name": "TEST_VS","nat64": "disabled","partition": "Common","policiesReference": {"isSubcollection": true,"link": "https://localhost/mgmt/tm/ltm/virtual/~Common~TEST_VS/policies?ver=14.1.4.3"},"pool": "/Common/TEST_POOL","poolReference": {"link": "https://localhost/mgmt/tm/ltm/pool/~Common~TEST_POOL?ver=14.1.4.3"},"profilesReference": {"isSubcollection": true,"items": [{"context": "all","fullPath": "/Common/TEST_HTTPPROFILE","generation": 1,"kind": "tm:ltm:virtual:profiles:profilesstate","name": "TEST_HTTPPROFILE","nameReference": {"link": "https://localhost/mgmt/tm/ltm/profile/http/~Common~TEST_HTTPPROFILE?ver=14.1.4.3"},"partition": "Common","selfLink": "https://localhost/mgmt/tm/ltm/virtual/~Common~TEST_VS/profiles/~Common~TEST_HTTPPROFILE?ver=14.1.4.3"},{"context": "all","fullPath": "/Common/tcp-lan-optimized","generation": 1,"kind": "tm:ltm:virtual:profiles:profilesstate","name": "tcp-lan-optimized","nameReference": {"link": "https://localhost/mgmt/tm/ltm/profile/tcp/~Common~tcp-lan-optimized?ver=14.1.4.3"},"partition": "Common","selfLink": "https://localhost/mgmt/tm/ltm/virtual/~Common~TEST_VS/profiles/~Common~tcp-lan-optimized?ver=14.1.4.3"}],"link": "https://localhost/mgmt/tm/ltm/virtual/~Common~TEST_VS/profiles?ver=14.1.4.3"},"rateLimit": "disabled","rateLimitDstMask": 0,"rateLimitMode": "object","rateLimitSrcMask": 0,"selfLink": "https://localhost/mgmt/tm/ltm/virtual/~Common~TEST_VS?ver=14.1.4.3","serviceDownImmediateAction": "none","source": "0.0.0.0/0","sourceAddressTranslation": {"pool": "/Common/TEST_SNATPOOL","poolReference": {"link": "https://localhost/mgmt/tm/ltm/snatpool/~Common~TEST_SNATPOOL?ver=14.1.4.3"},"type": "snat"},"sourcePort": "preserve","synCookieStatus": "not-activated","translateAddress": "enabled","translatePort": "enabled","vlansDisabled": true,"vsIndex": 776}

balance5 · Answer

To obtain this via API call - using python or similar, you will need to get the "stats" details of each VIP using a similar URL to the following:stats_url = "https://localhost/mgmt/tm/ltm/virtual/~Common/TEST_VIP/stats"This would typically be a dict. In the dict, you're looking for['status.availabilityState']['description']This would be either "offline" or "available"

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