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
  • BenT's avatar
    BenT
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    Dec 08, 2022

    I've been running on Ubuntu 20.04, and recently powershell was updated to 7.3.0 and bigipreport stopped working. I downgraded to 7.2.7 and it is back to working. With powershell at 7.3.0 the following error was given, "The application to execute does not exist: '/var/www/html/BigIPReport/pwsh.dll'."

    Not sure if this is a powershell issue or if something in the bigipreport code needs updating, just passing it on. 

  • Patrik_Jonsson's avatar
    Patrik_Jonsson
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    Oct 27, 2022

    Hey there

    Not sure if people subscribe to this thread anymore. Feels like we lost most subscribers after the first update to DC. Still get plenty of downloads though so in case someone is listening:

    Been updating the Docker base images in October to patch some security holes. Be sure to pull the new ones from DockerHub. 🙂

    I've been looking at making a PoC of a new frontend in React and I was wondering if there are any features that you feel is missing from BigIPReport? If it's frontend related I might just add it in the next revision.

    Kind regards,
    Patrik

  • Patrik_Jonsson's avatar
    Patrik_Jonsson
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    Aug 02, 2022

    Hi Robert

    Following up on your question. I updated to 16.1.2 and the report runs fine. I'm afraid I need more information in order to help you further.

    Kind regards,
    Patrik

  • Patrik_Jonsson's avatar
    Patrik_Jonsson
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    Aug 01, 2022

    Hey Robert

    Have a look at the logs tab and look for errors. Try restarting the restjavad service on the F5s.
    Meanwhile I'll upgrade my lab to 16.1.2 and will try myself.

    Kind regards,
    Patrik

  • MrRobertBooth's avatar
    MrRobertBooth
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    Aug 01, 2022

    I've been using BigIP Report for more than a year now without issues, recently we upgraded our F5s from 15 to 16.1.2 and ever since all pools have no members.  The related json for pools has all of the members at Null despite them being there.  Running v5.6.8 but have also tried some other versions to get the pool members back and have been unsuccessful.   Any thoughts?

    "members": null,

  • Patrik_Jonsson's avatar
    Patrik_Jonsson
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    Jul 26, 2022

    Hey Bryan
    Please check if the files are marked as read-only or if the report user does not have write permissions. You can also try to delete them manually, although it should not be needed with the "-force" flag set.

    Kind regards,
    Patrik

  • Bryan_T_'s avatar
    Bryan_T_
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    Jul 26, 2022

    Any ideas?

    2022-07-26 10:33:30 Writing C:/bigip/wwwroot/json/preferences.json.tmp
    2022-07-26 10:33:30 Wrote temporary files
    2022-07-26 10:33:35 Updating C:/bigip/wwwroot/json/asmpolicies.json
    Move-Item: C:\Users\admin\Downloads\bigipreport-v5.6.5\bigipreport-v5.6.5.ps1:2466
    Line |
    2466 | Move-Item -Force ($path + ".tmp") $path
    | ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
    | Cannot create a file when that file already exists.

    PS C:\Users\admin\Downloads\bigipreport-v5.6.5>

     

  • Patrik_Jonsson's avatar
    Patrik_Jonsson
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    Jun 27, 2022

    Please validate that you're running the script with the role Auditor?

    kind regards 

    Patrik

  • Emad's avatar
    Emad
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    Jun 27, 2022

    Patrik_Jonsson I am Getting the following issue

    • SSL Certificated are not being indexed/listed

    Error:

    2022-06-27 08:27:37 199.96.216.196:Caching certificates
2022-06-27 08:27:39 199.96.216.196:Error loading certificates. {"code":400,"message":"\"recursive\" unexpected argument","errorStack":[],"apiError":26214401} (line 1133)