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aj11's avatar
aj11
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Oct 17, 2017

What is the best way to find and disable/remove obsolete VIPs, pools and hosts?

I'm sure there are reports that show hits and all but is there a collective way to see last hits or frequency, and hosts that are no longer used? I need to get rid of old items no longer in use and ...
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Kevin_K_51432
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Oct 17, 2017

Greetings,

 

Do you have access to iHealth? There's a pretty cool feature there called Config Explorer which has an Unused Objects section. That might be a great first step?

 

iHealth > Config Explorer > Unused Objects

 

https://f5.com/support/tools/ihealth

 

Hope this is somewhat helpful!

 

Kevin

 

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    aj11
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    Oct 17, 2017

    Thanks. What determines an object is "unused" in this case?

     

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    Kevin_K_51432
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    Oct 17, 2017

    You're welcome. It appears this is a matter of object association. For example, policies, profiles or pools not associated with virtual servers.

     

    I found this article which offers a bit more detail:

     

    K15335: F5 recommends removing orphaned configuration objects

     

    https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K15335

     

    Kevin