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CirrusIs there a way to obtain statistics without user access to the F5 ?
I am trying to see if there is an easy way to obtain statistics from the F5 without user access (no admin/root or read-only access). I can think of using syslog and gui for read-only access. However, I am looking for a programatic solution - something like accessing a VS that may provide the data via iRule or something ?
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JGCumulonimbus
A very understandable concern there.
You can give the user read-only client access to the SNMP service directly, or indirectly through an enterprise monitoring system using SNMP.
See: https://support.f5.com/kb/en-us/products/big-ip_ltm/manuals/product/bigip-external-monitoring-implementations-11-3-0/8.html and https://support.f5.com/kb/en-us/solutions/public/13000/300/sol13322.html .
tatmotivCirrostratus
I'm using a set of python scripts that are executed every 5 minutes on the BigIPs via cron. Those scripts extract interesting statistics data from tmsh show commands and write them into syslog.
Syslog is forwarded to Splunk and I made a dashboard there that provides a statistical overview over all of those stats. For example, I thus have a panel containing all CPU stats of 20 vCMP guests in one curve. 1st and 2nd level support can look at it anytime without access to the f5s at all.
I currently do only collect system-wide statistics like that, but not statistics of every virtual (although that would also be possible).
Let me know if this is interesting for you. I can provide the python scripts.
HTH Martin
