BIG-IP Report

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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:

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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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    Jul 23, 2021

    I believe the actual reason behind the error was that the script was executed twice in the same PSSession.

     

    Kind regards,

    Patrik

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    richi3161
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    Jul 23, 2021

    That´s correct. When I try to run the script twice again, I get exactly this error.

     

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    TimRiker
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    Aug 10, 2021

     I patched this in 5.6.1 Can you test once Patrik makes a release? or test from git.

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    Patrik_Jonsson
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    Aug 10, 2021

    Here's a pre-release:

    https://loadbalancing.se/downloads/bigipreport-v5.6.1.zip

     

    If it works fine I'll update the version above.

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    Patrik_Jonsson
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    Aug 12, 2021

    Heads up to those running the report using Kubernetes.

    My Dockerhub account was disabled and my application for the open source version has not been processed yet.

    This means that you need to build and store the images yourself.

     

    You can find the manifests here:

    https://github.com/net-utilities/BigIPReport-Docker

     

    Will also update the documentation to cover the pagination concept Tim added yesterday.

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    Patrik_Jonsson
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    Sep 07, 2021

    Good news! Docker has approved my request to include BigIPreport in their open source program.

    This means that the docker/k8s containers will be available as soon as it's activated (1-2 weeks).

     

    Kind regards,

    Patrik

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    MBauer
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    Sep 24, 2021

    Dear Patrick,

     

    I used version 5.6.2 and added my code to crawl the policy data as well.

    I will try to share the code via github with you.

    The F5 statement regarding the translation of the policy logic to readable code was that they cannot share this with me.

    (Service Request #C3491339)

    I started to create the logic for our most recent used policie configurations already.

     

    Best regards,

    Marius

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    Sep 24, 2021

     I sent back some reviews to your code on github. I've not yet tried it out locally.

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    Patrik_Jonsson
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    Sep 25, 2021

     Well done! Just some small things to remark on.

     

    Also good input Tim! I added some comments too.

    We're between houses so my lab will be packed into boxes until December so I can't test it myself.

     

    Kind regards,

    Patrik