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AltostratusVIP down alerts
How to find VIP went down on which time or server behind the pool went down. Through CLI and GUI
How many days loggs will be saved in LB
Simon_BlakelyEmployee
By default, the LTM tries to retain logs for 10 days.
K13367: Managing log files on the BIG-IP system (11.x - 13.x)
Increasing the log options from default or adding irule logging may impact the ability of the LTM to retain the default logs. If additional log levels or longer retention is required, then configuring HSL or a remote syslog server is recommended.
Within the ltm log file in /var/log/ltm, pool member and virtual server state changes are recorded with messages such as
notice mcpd[5261]: 01070638:5: Pool /Common/my_http_pool member /Common/10.0.0.145:80 monitor status down. [ /Common/http: down; last error: ] [ was up for 502hrs:48mins:43sec ]
notice mcpd[5261]: 01071682:5: SNMP_TRAP: Virtual /Common/my_https_vs has become unavailable
You can use zgrep to search for these events in the ltm log files
zgrep "has become unavailable" /var/log/ltm*ltm: notice mcpd[5261]: 01071682:5: SNMP_TRAP: Virtual /Common/my_https_vs has become unavailable