BIG-IP Report

Would appreciate some feedback. If you run version above v5.5.0 and use an F5 in front of it, could you please try this iRule? It makes the web server serve the Brotli compressed files instead of the Json files and it should accelerate the loading times quite a lot. Would be interesting to hear load times before and after:

when HTTP_REQUEST {
  set has_replaced 0
  if { 
    [HTTP::header Accept-Encoding] contains "br"
    && [HTTP::uri] ends_with ".json"
    && [HTTP::uri] ne "/json/knowndevices.json"
   } {
    HTTP::uri "[HTTP::uri].br"
    set has_replaced 1
  }
}

when HTTP_RESPONSE {
  if { $has_replaced } {
    HTTP::header replace "Content-Encoding" "br"
  }
}

 If it works well we can include it in the repository and installation instructions. 

Polling function has been fixed in v5.6.7-beta together with bug fix from Tim related to the ASM policy indexing.

You can download it here (or pull from DockerHub):
https://loadbalancing.se/downloads/bigipreport-v5.6.7-beta.zip

Found more bugs or want features? Join us on Discord:
https://discord.gg/RzmjgneW

A user reported that there are issues with the live polling function in v5.6.6. Last version it worked on seems to be v5.6.1. If you use this function I'd advise to wait with an upgrade.

Fix can be tracked here:
https://github.com/net-utilities/BigIPReport/issues/104

Found more bugs or want features? Join us on Discord:
https://discord.gg/RzmjgneW

v5.6.6-beta has been released

• Added much stricter linting rules
• Added parameter typing to almost all functions
• Added prettier for a more consistent code style
• Handling Virtual server masks with value any6
• Graceful handling of policy processing for optional attributes

I will not publish this version as stable as there's way too much code refactoring. However, if you want to help, please go ahead and download it from here:

https://loadbalancing.se/downloads/bigipreport-v5.6.6-beta.zip

There is also a (half-baked) docker-compose example of how to run the data-collector here:
https://github.com/epacke/bigipreport-docker-example

Working on a video guide on how to get started but my right arm is still not recovered from being broken so it's a bit slow. 🙂

New version out!

Changes

TLDR;
Added buttons to copy the monitor tests instead of the tooltip version

Bunch of other things has happened under the hood:

* Refactored the monitor send string functions
* Added unit tests for monitor send string functions
* Added Cypress for integration testing
* Refactored and added types for a bunch of functions
* Transpiling via Webpack to:
  - Allow browser friendly module handling while unit tests are still working
  - Bundling all our code into one bundle instead of multiple files

The main reason for the changes above are for us to be able to protect the project against regression errors and ensure that the code quality reaching the end users is good enough.

For those making local changes, please note that the way the js-src is built has been changed. The contribution guide article has been updated accordingly.

DockerHub update

BigIPReport was approved as an Open source project by Dockerhub but upon enrolling the account used to host the Docker images the process got stuck. My contact stopped replying and after multiple reminders and a few months I have now re-submitted the application. Until then I'll keep paying from my own pocket.

The k8s data-collector used to gather data for the report has been pulled over 3500 times so I am guessing at least a few people are using the builds.

Manual installations: https://loadbalancing.se/downloads/bigipreport-v5.6.5.zip 
Kubernetes: bigipreport/data-collector-k8s:v5.6.5 

I get an authorization error when trying to use the token from the read-only account to query the failover status, but get no error and the expected results when using an admin account. I adjust the permissions of this account and get back.

In case you haven't worked with the REST API you'll literally need the admin user in order to use basic auth. Otherwise you'd need to a token in order to get the info with a "normal" user. You can check out the authentication troubleshooting in this article to see how to get a token:

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

Perhaps it's a SOAP/REST difference?

Good guess! It is. SOAP got more permissions with a read-only role than REST does.

It's a read only account. I'm only using one traffic group on that F5.

Could you please send me the results from this REST endpoint from both devices?

curl -sku admin:password https://<F5-management>/mgmt/tm/cm/failover-status

Please go ahead and clean the output from sensitive information (if any) before posting. 🙂

It's a read only account. I'm only using one traffic group on that F5. I should mentioned that I'm using an older version, on 5.3.1 on a Windows Server and do not have these two issues there and I use the same account. Perhaps it's a SOAP/REST difference?

Howdy!

Certificate information missing

Is the user that BigIP report is using auditor or above? Else it won't be able to read the certificate information. 

Pair missing data

Sounds like the collector believes both devices are passive in which case it won't collect any data by default. Are you using multiple traffic groups on these devices by any chance?