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Welcome! Thought of something - would it be useful to display the version of the script in the web interface so it's easy to know what version you are on? Somewhere down by the 'Report generated on x with BigIPReport Version x' kind of thing. Also I updated to 4.3.3 and noticed that it's now picking up more VIPs than it was before for whatever reason :) So yay. And it works.

Also do you know if there's an easy way to change the location of the f5 powershell snapin? Or remove it and reinstall it? I mistakenly installed it from a stupid location and now I need to change it :(

Version is a good idea. I'll add that to the feature list. About the additional VIP's. That sounds weird. Should be the same. Have you verified that all of them are legit?

I think I did the same thing as you did with the snap-in. Don't remember how I solved it, but have you unregistered it through Powershell and registred at the new location? The installation ps1 should have two options. One for install and one for uninstall, or something similar.

/Patrik

Some more tests has been made now. The time to generate the report has been cut to half. Would probably be faster except for current VPN throughput issues.

Feedback on the new version appreciated as I don't have an army of QA engineers behind me.

Please note that "All OK" is also helpful.

/Patrik

I'm certainly noticing an improvement in the speed of execution :) All is OK and works great for me. Still looking into the additional VIPs

Thanks Luc!

My VIP count and the size of the HTML was exactly the same (down to he byte) so the additional VIPs should be due to something else.

Are you running any other scripts with the bigip report user? If the user is active somewhere else changing ie. partitions it could affect the output of the script.

/Patrik

Hi Paul

Oh noes, you're my main guinea pig. :)

Which version are you running?

/Patrik

Hi Patrik, Some more info although the ASM column is still not being populated - all are showing N/A. I noticed that the ASM variables were not being cached.

Get-Variable | Out-String
 ASMPolicies                    {}

I didn't see any of the other ASM variables loaded.

On line 995 I think ShowCompressionProfile should read ShowASMPolicyBlockingMode. I changed this but it still did not work so I commented out the second condition:

and ($ProvisionedModules | Where-Object { $_.loadbalancer -eq $loadbalancername     }).ProvisionedModules -Contains "TMOS_MODULE_ASM"){

Now I can see the ASM Policies and they are loaded into cache while the script is running

Get-Variable | Out-String

Name                           Value                                           
----                           -----                                           
$                              $ASMPolicies                                    
?                              True                                            
^                              $ASMPolicies                                    
args                           {}                                              

ASMPolicies                    {ASMPolicy, ASMPolicy, ASMPolicy, ASMPolicy...} 

And the info is there

$ASMPolicies (example)

name               : /Common/TEMPLATE
blockingmode       : Transparent
language           : UNICODE_UTF_8
http_header_length : 8192
cookie_length      : 8192
description        : 
loadbalancer       : lb10mgt.domain.com

Unfortunately still not showing up in the ASM column though. Hope this helps.

Hi Paul

Thank you for your feedback and cooperation. In v12 it looks like the string as "ASM_" is prepended to the policy name when listing virtual server profiles (for some reason the policy is listed amongst the profiles). Perhaps this is not the case in v11.6.

I'll try to write a debug script for you to run tomorrow if that's OK?

Meanwhile could you please try these things (within the same partition)?

1. Create an ASM policy with the name name as an HTTP profile.
2. Create an HTTP profile with the name ASM_test and an ASM policy with the name test.

This might help me determine if they share the same "name space" and might make it easier to check if a virtual server has a valid ASM profile.

/Patrik

Interesting development and I'm not sure if this started happening with 4.3.3 or when exactly, but now after I run the script and then try to browse to the URL, it just displays the 'loading' animation and will not proceed. The scroll bar in my window is pretty huge so I'm assuming the data is loading but it won't go past the loading animation. Want me to try an earlier version or what's the best way to troubleshoot? I've also tried on Edge (using Chrome) and same result. Oh and the ps1 executes perfectly, no errors reported at all.

Hi Patrik, I'll test it out and let you know. It's worth noting that all our policies are prefixed with the string

asm_