BigIP Report Old
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This is a script which will generate a report of the BigIP 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 our 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 guest permissions on your devices.
Demo/Preview
Please note that it takes time to make these so sometimes they're a bit outdated and they only cover one HA pair. However, they still serve the purpose of showing what you can expect from the report.
Interactive demo
http://loadbalancing.se/bigipreportdemo/
Screen shots
The main report:
The device overview:
Certificate details:
How to use this snippet:
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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).
Download: https://loadbalancing.se/downloads/bigipreport-v5.5.4.zip
Documentation, installation instructions and troubleshooting: https://loadbalancing.se/bigipreport-rest/
Docker support
This will be the recommended way of running bigipreport in the near future. It's still undergoing testing but it's looking really good so far.
https://loadbalancing.se/2021/01/05/running-bigipreport-on-docker/
BigipReport (Legacy)
Older version of the report that only runs on Windows and is depending on a Powershell plugin originally written by Joe Pruitt (F5).
BigipReport (Stable):
https://loadbalancing.se/downloads/bigipreport-5.3.1.zip
BigipReport (BETA): https://loadbalancing.se/downloads/bigipreport-5.4.0-beta.zip
iControl Snapin: https://loadbalancing.se/downloads/f5-icontrol.zip
Documentation and installation instructions:
https://loadbalancing.se/bigip-report/
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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Also trying out a Discord channel now. You're welcome to hang out with us there:
Code :
85931,86647,90730
Tested this on version:
13.0
Hey!
Np. :) Adding the feature requests to the list. Currently a bit short on time due to big projects at work and spare time so they will probably take a while.
/Patrik
Made a really small change in the last version in order to be able to view persistence profiles.
Sorry to all that is waiting for features. Still crazy and work and spare time. Of course, if you have a serious bug, please let me know and I will make time to solve it.
/Patrik
- JackRodriguezNimbostratus
Hi Patrik. I am running into a small issue with V4.2.8. Seems to only be affecting one of our LTMs on code 11.6.0 HF5. All of our LTMs are running same code so not sure what is different. Anyway, this system is not reporting SSL Client Profiles on any of the SSL VIPs. "SS" column is "No" and when you click the VIP, the Client SSL Profile section is "None". I ran across this issue when trying to search all VIPs that had a certain SSL Profile attached. Not a sortable field by the way but that would be awesome if it was. Anyway, have you seen this issue before?
thanks in advance.
Hi Jack!
- Was this working in earlier versions?
- Is is affecting this particular SSL profile, or all of them?
- Do you have other LTM's with 11.6 where this is working?
- Do you have error reporting enabled? If not, could you please run it manually against this particular machine? Any exceptions being thrown?
When you refer to the field being sortable, do you mean that you'd like to see the profile name in the column?
/Patrik
Hi Paul
Sure thing. Our ASM implementation has been put on hold at the moment due to big external projects. But I will add it later.
/Patrik
- JackRodriguezNimbostratus
Patrik,
Here is what I know.
•Was this working in earlier versions? Not completely certain of that since I never was really trying to search for a particular cert profile. •Is is affecting this particular SSL profile, or all of them? It is affecting the entire LTM and all of the VIPs that should have cert profiles attached but are not showing up. In fact no VIPs are reporting SSL client profiles attached on this LTM. •Do you have other LTM's with 11.6 where this is working? Yes, all others are on this code and reporting correctly. •Do you have error reporting enabled? If not, could you please run it manually against this particular machine? Any exceptions being thrown? I do not currently but I will try this.
The sortable thing was just a comment about what I was originally trying to do (task) with this reporting tool. I was trying to find all instances where a particular cert (SSL Profile) was being used. A better word would have been searchable and not sortable.
thanks again
Hi Jack!
Did you get around to checking for errors?
Regarding the sorting. It's hard to fit everything with limited screen estate. Most people today are sadly still using 1080p monitors and adding the name into the column would be stealing too much valuable space.
Searching for it would be possible, but a bit challenging as the report is built right now.
May I suggest a third option parsing the data you have with powershell?
Check out this article:
https://loadbalancing.se/2016/10/07/synergy-effect-of-running-bigipreport/
Searching for all virtual servers using a specific ssl profile could then be accomplished by running:
$Virtualservers | Where-Object { $_.sslprofile -eq "/Common/myprofile" }
/Patrik
- Bman27_303106Nimbostratus
Do you have a port of this to python?
No, sorry.
/Patrik
- Maneesh_72711Cirrostratus
Hi Patrick I am unable to get correct information for SSL using the script I have got my LTM's running on BIG-IP 12.1.1 Build 1.0.196 Hotfix HF1.
Have got another pair of LTM's running on BIG-IP 10.2.4 Build 866.0 Hotfix HF12. In which I get the SSL info correct but script does not provide the pool information.