Monitoring Pool Member Status and Emailing Alerts...

I don't know anything about ISM or know which one you are refering to (IBM or Cisco). In my opinion, there is alot of maturity that EM needs to

 

go through as I have had it tested in our environment with feedback from my co-workers. However, it is, as you said, possible to develop an iControl to monitor the pool and email alerts, independent of EM.

 

 

Take a look at the following links that may help you develop and understand iControl

 

Click here

 

Click here

 

 

I know that you mentioned syslog and SNMP monitoring is not something you are not in favor of, but I am curious as to why not?

 

 

 

/CB

 

 

ISManager was a monitoring and management platform that pre-dates Enterprise Manager. Enterprise Manager is more focused on deployment and general system management tasks, as David mentions, and does not include the monitoring functionality he's after.

 

 

We do realize that the EOL of ISman did leave a bit a void there, and it's my understanding that product development is already working to address this requirement, so stay tuned.

 

 

HTH

 

/deb

Joe has written enough examples in iControl that you could easily put together an iControl application in the language of your choice to poll the status of your vips/pools and send email alerts on them.

Thanks! I'll definately take a look into to these.

Hello Bhattman,

 

 

we did an upgrade from Bigip LTM 9.3.0 HF3 to 10.0.1 HF3 and were using an irule we think was written by you ... this one

 

 

http://devcentral.f5.com/wiki/default.aspx/iRules/Pool__Member__Status__Page_on_a__Virtual__Server_v10.html

 

 

The previous version was one of the winner in the irule contest and worked fine for us.

 

 

Now in version 10.x.x some things and commands are different and so we took your new version of the irule.

 

But we get an error with it, something like that in /var/log/ltm

 

 

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Nov 24 13:36:05 local/tmm err tmm[2365]: 01220001:3: TCL error: bigip-poolstatus - can't read "addr": no such variable while executing "append response " >INVALID [string tolower $poolname]$addr$port$f..." ("foreach" body line 36) invoked from wi

 

thin "foreach { selectedpool } $::pool_member_status_list { if { [catch { scan [split [getfield $se..." invoked from w

 

ithin "if { [HTTP::uri] eq "/_itools/lbstatus" } { set response "itools kl-lbstatus - \ [clock format [cl..."

 

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hope you can help us with that.

 

Thank you

 

 

Hi Guys,

 

 

I am also looking for email alerts from F5 to be setup if any of the pools, Virtual server or nodes are down

 

 

Is there any inbuilt feature which can do this?

 

 

I have been searching this forum and couldn't find any information

 

 

I have 8 BigIP's and would like your help to get notificaiton working on this

 

 

Any help would be highly appreciated

 

 

regards

 

Chandru

Hi Chandru,

 

 

This post should help get you started:

 

 

Email notification of node/vs down

 

http://devcentral.f5.com/Default.aspx?tabid=53&view=topic&postid=20167&ptarget=20173

 

 

Aaron

Hi Aron,

 

 

I have managed to setup the alerts and i could send email from BIGIP

 

 

I have added the alerts for the pool and nodes down and up

 

 

But i am not receiving any emails. Can you let me know is there any way we can troubleshoot?

 

 

Thanks

 

C

I still even after purchasing the latest version of Enterprise Manager, have not gotten what I originally posted as a feature. What I I have been relying on is SEC (system even correlator) which which is a daemon that simpy monitors SNMP trap event matches and executes an event (mailx command on a linux machine with SNMPD running is what gets the email to you). It's all cli and flat file ascii configs, but it's not over complex. Just get a linux box running, get SNMPD trap services running, and then install SEC to monitor it. Regardless of that fact, I would of expected by now that Enterprise Manger just by very nature of it's name and being in version 3.x would do what I had to do on my own through freeware, especially since they've known for a long time alerting is a facility VERY lacking in the their suite of products...I mean think about it...if a node goes down, shoudn't a product called F5 ENTERPRISE MANAGER be the station to receive the SNMP traps and be the facility that delivers and stores those events as well as notify through a email. Even though EM v3 is better, it still is nothing more then an over glorified aonfiguration backup and update server.

 

 

 

Anyway, that is what I use, which works fine, but as a company that has invested over $1million dollars in their LTM, ASM, GTM products, I shouldn't have to AD-HOC such a common sense feature with freeware, when I also own a product called ENTERPRISE MANAGER.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Was there any response to this, I find myself with the task of getting this done in a very quick timeframe and had hoped the EM could be of assistance.