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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    Mar 23, 2024

    v5.7.9 is out with security patches. Like always, docker images has been built and for the brave souls running :latest that tag has been update too.

    No need to update config file between this and the previous version.

  • Mathieu_Cerfon1's avatar
    Mathieu_Cerfon1
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    Sep 26, 2023

    Hi Patrik, Tim

    I confirm that's not related to the docker. It seems the issue is located to two specific devices for a single customer.

    Coulnd't find a difference in the configuration yet...

    Br, 

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    TimRiker
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    Sep 20, 2023

    Are you running the same config outside of Docker? The box that runs our report had some network issues that caused the report to take forever. Fixing the network sped it up again. The same xml file and version outside of docker should run about the same speed from what I've tested.

  • Patrik_Jonsson's avatar
    Patrik_Jonsson
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    Sep 20, 2023

    Hi Mathieu

    Which version did you run on the Windows server? The old version was a bit faster due to how REST handles Virtualserver stats. The SOAP version could get them all in one go whereas the REST API needs to poll each and every virtual server.

    Another thing you can do is to check the MaxJobs setting here and set it to the same as the number of device groups although from the looks of it you have an issue with one particular machine so that probably won't help.

    Docker should not add that much overhead normally. If it did I reckon nobody would use it. 🙂

    TimRiker usually has many good ideas. Any input?

    Kind regards,
    Patrik