BIG-IP Report

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.

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).

Downloads:
https://loadbalancing.se/downloads/bigipreport-v5.7.13.zip

Documentation, installation instructions and troubleshooting: https://loadbalancing.se/bigipreport-rest/

Docker support

https://loadbalancing.se/2021/01/05/running-bigipreport-on-docker/

Kubernetes support

https://loadbalancing.se/2021/04/16/bigipreport-on-kubernetes/

BIG-IP Report (Legacy)

Older version of the report that only runs on Windows and is depending on a Powershell plugin originally written by Joe Pruitt (F5)

Upgrade instructions

Protect the report using APM and active directory

Written by DevCentral member Shann_P:

https://loadbalancing.se/2018/04/08/protecting-bigip-report-behind-an-apm-by-shannon-poole/

Got issues/problems/feedback?

Still have issues? Drop a comment below. We usually reply quite fast. Any bugs found, issues detected or ideas contributed makes the report better for everyone, so it's always appreciated.

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Code :

BigIP Report

Tested this on version:

12, 13, 14, 15, 16

Santhosh0991
Nimbostratus
May 16, 2023
Hello Patrcik,
I finished installing using IIS, however i am getting json file did not load error although i m using IIS 10.x, can you help ?
Patrik_Jonsson
MVP
May 17, 2023
Hey Santosh!

Could you elaborate on what the problem is? Has the collector script finished without errors?

Kind regards

Patrik
Santhosh0991
Nimbostratus
May 19, 2023
Collector script, -u mean is it XML or PS ?
when i run PS, it says unable to contact the server, but i have the connectivity to the deivce from the IIS server
Could you let me know should i do any changes ?
Patrik_Jonsson
MVP
May 19, 2023
Yes, I meant the power shell script. What error do you get? Could you please paste it here?

Kind regards,
Patrik
Patrik_Jonsson
MVP
Jul 19, 2023
Hola, hope everyone has a nice winter/summer depending on where you're at.

Just wanted to remind you to pull new versions of the container once in while to keep up with the security updates. Just patched some vulnerabilities in nginx.

Kind regards,
Patrik
Patrik_Jonsson
MVP
Jul 19, 2023
Small, but useful feature added by TimRiker where you can copy data group lists and download them as CSV:

https://loadbalancing.se/downloads/bigipreport-v5.7.3.zip

Or Dockerhub bigipreport/data-collector-k8s:v5.7.3 and bigipreport/frontend:v5.7.3.

Tip:
Check the bigipreport.ps1 file for a "table" which indicates between which versions the configuration file needs to be updated.

Kind regards,
Patrik
Patrik_Jonsson
MVP
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
Patrik_Jonsson
MVP
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
Altostratus
Sep 15, 2023
Hi Patrik,

Indeed, issue was coming from the file !
Thank you for you quick support and you work 😉
Best regards,

M.
Patrik_Jonsson
MVP
Sep 16, 2023
Re-pull your frontend images. Just updated nginx alpine base to a new minor version due to vulnerabilities.

Kind regards,
Patrik