Monitoring Pool Member Status and Emailing Alerts...

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.