Sharepoint 2010 and F5 Management Pack

I would guess it's the LTM management IP address.

 

 

Aaron

What if the F5 fails over to the standby unit? Then you udon't have the correct management address in the config.

Hey John,

Not to overcomplicate the issue, but you would need to detect if the device is part of a failover (HA) pair and then handle the case accordingly. I whipped up a script which should help in this situation.

 Set the initial IP Address you wish to check
$initialMgmtAddress = "172.27.58.180";
$ErrorActionPreference = "stop";
add-PSSnapIn Microsoft.EnterpriseManagement.OperationsManager.Client -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue;; 
 Grab SCOM Directory from the Registry
$scomFolder = $(Get-ItemProperty "HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Microsoft Operations Manager\3.0\Setup").InstallDirectory;
 Switch to SCOM folder and run Startup Script
sl $scomFolder
.\Microsoft.EnterpriseManagement.OperationsManager.ClientShell.Functions.ps1;
Start-OperationsManagerClientShell -ManagementServerName: "" -PersistConnection: $true -Interactive: $true;
 Grab the Device object out of Operations Manager
$f5DeviceClass = Get-MonitoringClass -Name "F5.Device"
$f5DeviceObject = Get-MonitoringObject -MonitoringClass $f5DeviceClass -Criteria "MgmtAddress=`'$initialMgmtAddress`'"
$failoverPeer = "";
$failoverState = "";
 Grab all of the properties on the device
$props = $f5DeviceObject.GetMonitoringProperties();
foreach ($prop in $props)
{
     Store the FailoverPeerAddress property
    if ($prop.Name -ieq "FailoverPeerAddress")
    {
        $failoverPeer = $f5DeviceObject.GetMonitoringPropertyValue($prop).ToString();
    }
    
     Store the FailoverState property
    if ($prop.Name -ieq "FailoverState")
    {
        $failoverState = $f5DeviceObject.GetMonitoringPropertyValue($prop).ToString();
    }
}
 Check the failover state from the above query and choose the correct device.
if ($failoverState -ieq "active")
{
    $mgmtAddress = $initialMgmtAddress;
}
else
{
    $mgmtAddress = $failoverPeer;
}
 Continued from existing script (plug in the $mgmtAddress value)
"SPS_http_virtual"
{
$vip.MgmtAddress = $mgmtAddress;
$vip.Name = "SPS_http_virtual";
$vip.IP = "192.0.2.10";
$vip.Port = "80";
...
...

Hope this helps, and let me know if this will not work for your config. The only catch is that it will not automatically rebuild the SharePoint application view unless you run rediscovery, but with this in place it should at least pick the active device.

Thanks,

-Dave