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Vijay_E
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Jun 18, 2016

Is 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...
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tatmotiv
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Jun 20, 2016

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