Pool node status

Hi,

 

 

I don't think there is a simple, F5-supported way to give unauthenticated access to just the pool stats page. However, you could create a guest login and use that. In the upcoming v11, you have the option of not enforcing the GUI's idle timeout on the dashboard using a checkbox under system>>preferences:

 

 

Enforce Idle Timeout While Viewing The Dashboard

 

 

If that doesn't work for you, you could modify one of these examples:

 

 

iControl-based solutions which allow programmatic access to the BIG-IP

 

http://devcentral.f5.com/wiki/default.aspx/iControl/codeshare - search for "status"

 

http://devcentral.f5.com/wiki/default.aspx/iControl/BigipBlogging.html

 

 

iRule based solutions which use an LTM virtual server to get the status:

 

 

http://devcentral.f5.com/wiki/default.aspx/iRules/codeshare - search for "status"

 

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

 

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

 

 

Aaron

if u'd like to have stats, wondering why snmp polling isn't usable.

Posted By hoolio on 06/10/2011 03:53 PM

 

Hi,

 

 

I don't think there is a simple, F5-supported way to give unauthenticated access to just the pool stats page. However, you could create a guest login and use that. In the upcoming v11, you have the option of not enforcing the GUI's idle timeout on the dashboard using a checkbox under system>>preferences:

 

 

Enforce Idle Timeout While Viewing The Dashboard

 

 

If that doesn't work for you, you could modify one of these examples:

 

 

iControl-based solutions which allow programmatic access to the BIG-IP

 

http://devcentral.f5.com/wiki/default.aspx/iControl/codeshare - search for "status"

 

http://devcentral.f5.com/wiki/default.aspx/iControl/BigipBlogging.html

 

 

iRule based solutions which use an LTM virtual server to get the status:

 

 

http://devcentral.f5.com/wiki/default.aspx/iRules/codeshare - search for "status"

 

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

 

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

 

 

Aaron

 

Hi Aaron,

 

 

Thanks for your response. YOu have given me some good options here. I am interested in

 

http://devcentral.f5.com/wiki/default.aspx/iControl/pyControlQuickPoolStatus.html as from the description it seems it will pull back everything I need.

 

 

 

I cannot seem to get it to work on a windows machine. I get this error:

 

 

C:\Scripts>check.py

 

Traceback (most recent call last):

 

File "C:\Scripts\check.py", line 1,

 

in import pycontrol.pyControl as pyControl

 

ImportError: No module named pycontrol.pyControl

 

 

Perhaps I am not running it right, but I took the first box from that page and saved it as a .py file, and also saved the pool_status.py script in the same directory. I do have python installed on this server.

 

 

As for the powershell option, how exactly do I call that?

 

 

 

 

for the python script, you need python, the suds module, and the pycontrol module.