BIG-IP Report

Problem this snippet solves:

Overview

This is a script which will generate a report of the BIG-IP LTM configuration on all your load balancers making it easy to find information and get a comprehensive overview of virtual servers and pools connected to them.

This information is used to relay information to NOC and developers to give them insight in where things are located and to be able to plan patching and deploys. I also use it myself as a quick way get information or gather data used as a foundation for RFC's, ie get a list of all external virtual servers without compression profiles.

The script has been running on 13 pairs of load balancers, indexing over 1200 virtual servers for several years now and the report is widely used across the company and by many companies and governments across the world.

It's easy to setup and use and only requires auditor (read-only) permissions on your devices.

Demo/Preview

Interactive demo

http://loadbalancing.se/bigipreportdemo/

Screen shots

The main report:

The device overview:

Certificate details:

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Installation instructions

BigipReport REST

This is the only branch we're updating since middle of 2020 and it supports 12.x and upwards (maybe even 11.6).

Updated Oct 16, 2024
Version 11.0
application delivery
devops
iControl
LTM
microsoft powershell with icontrol
  • Patrik_Jonsson's avatar
    Patrik_Jonsson
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    Sep 07, 2023

    Working on upgrading some dependencies for security reasons to avoid the project getting flagged as vulnerable by internal tools.

    However, when combining old jQuery, Typescript, Webpack and a bunch of other node modules it's easier said than done. At the moment I'm stuck at the E2E tests (Cypress). 

    There's an issue:
    https://github.com/cypress-io/cypress/issues/27769

    If you do get some pokes regarding vulnerable stuff they should all be false positives. Most of the vulnerabilities are invalid since BigIPReport does not have a backend web service, most of the code is static HTML.

    Just keep track of this pages comments and update the docker images regurlarly as I update the base image dependencies and you're gonna do fine.

    Kind regards,
    Patrik

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    Sep 07, 2023

    Oh, right. Meant to add these stats a while ago:

    • Since I started measuring a few years back we've had 3817 total downloads of the app packages
    • From at least 50+ countries where US has by far the most downloads
    • We get ~200 clones per month on GitHub
    • The images has been pulled 6784 times on DockerHub

    Questions/support?

    Join our discord channel, we usually answer pretty fast:
    https://discord.gg/TM3BJaX7

     

  • Mathieu_Cerfon1's avatar
    Mathieu_Cerfon1
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    Sep 14, 2023

    Hi Patrik,

    We recently moved our bigip-report to a doker since our old windows server is going to be end of support.

    unfortunately, with the same setup, same users, i always got a 401 F5 Authorization failed.

    I've tried a lot of think suggested in the topics and on : 

    https://loadbalancing.se/bigipreport-rest/#Authentication_failed_see_inner_exception

    https://loadbalancing.se/2021/03/28/installing-troubleshooting-and-running-bigip-ingress-controller/#Authentication_issues

    I also check F5 possible bugs ID but still nothing.

    From the docker itself, curl is working perfectly : I can get the token and the list of pools.

    Also tried to moved the user from Guest access all partitions to full admin : nothing

    Any idea what could cause the issue ? 

    Best regards, 

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    Patrik_Jonsson
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    Sep 14, 2023

    Hi Mathieu

    Since you've tried using curl from within the container I reckon you've ruled out network issues at least.
    One thing you could try is to try to re-create the config file (start with a new one, don't re-use the old) if you have not done so already.

    Windows and linux has different line breaks and I've also had the pleasure of experiencing garbage characters more than once.

    Which version of BigIPReport are you using and which version of TMOS are you running?

    Kind regards,
    Patrik

     

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    Mathieu_Cerfon1
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    Sep 15, 2023

    Hi Patrik,

     

    Indeed, issue was coming from the file ! 

    Thank you for you quick support and you work 😉

    Best regards,

     

    M.

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    Sep 15, 2023

    Hi Mathieu
    Although I was hoping for a fun troubleshooting session over discord I'm glad that it worked out for you!

    Always fun to hear from users of the project, be it over mail, message or comments. ❤️

    Kind regards, 
    Patrik

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    Sep 16, 2023

    Re-pull your frontend images. Just updated nginx alpine base to a new minor version due to vulnerabilities.

    Kind regards,
    Patrik

  • Mathieu_Cerfon1's avatar
    Mathieu_Cerfon1
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    Sep 18, 2023

    Hi Patrik,

    Me as well, I'm a bit disapointed that was such a simple human mistakes ! I could do better lol

    Anyway thank you for your support 😉

    Regards,

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    Sep 18, 2023

    Upgraded Cypress to patch vulnerabilities and make the vulnerability scanners calm down. 🙂

    Working on a new version where there's a view for nodes too.

    Kind regards,
    Patrik