BigIP Report Old

Thanks Patrik

Just tried 4.3.0 -

2017-06-23 09:04:29 Configuring the console window 2017-06-23 09:04:29 Pre-execution checks 2017-06-23 09:04:29 Pre execution checks was successful Add-Type : Cannot add type. The type name 'VirtualServer' already exists. At C:\Users\lhong\Downloads\Bigipreport-4.3.0\Bigipreport-4.3.0.ps1:500 char:1 + Add-Type @' + ~~~~~~~~~~~ + CategoryInfo : InvalidOperation: (VirtualServer:String) [Add-Type], Exception + FullyQualifiedErrorId : TYPE_ALREADY_EXISTS,Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.AddTypeCommand

Looks like you tried to execute it within the same Powershell session. Restart the shell/ISE and try again?

/Patrik

Thanks. I started a new powershell session and got past the error. Now I am seeing "method invocation failed"

Method invocation failed because [iControl.LocalLBVirtualServer] does not contain a method named 'get_source_address_translation_type'. At C:\Users\lhong\downloads\Bigipreport-4.3.0\Bigipreport-4.3.0.ps1:970 char:4 + $virtualserversourceaddresstranlationtypelist = $ ... + ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + CategoryInfo : InvalidOperation: (:) [], RuntimeException + FullyQualifiedErrorId : MethodNotFound

Too bad. That one should really work on 11.4.1 according to F5 support docs.

Try commenting out line 970 and 971 and re-execute? Comment out by adding a hashtag before the code.

/Patrik

Patrik, What are the chances that BigIP Report could be adapted to process an offline static SCF or UCS?

thanks, -Brian

Cool idea! However, that would require massive amounts of free text parsing and would not be very reliable.

Out of interest, may I ask you what prevents you from running the report as it is?

/Patrik

Working as a consultant in a sensitive environment getting anything "on" the network is nigh impossible, but often the client is perfectly content to hand over a directory of UCS files.

Perhaps another option is to load the UCS into a standalone VE, and run BigIP Report against the VE.

That's possible, but you'd miss out on the status of pool members that way. We are quite picky with how we do things at my company so I designed the script like this:

• The user needed to extract the information only needs guest access (which means that private keys or configuration changes are not an issue)
• The server extracting the information and the server that presents it can be separated. So you can basically run it from your client and write the data to a separate internal server.

In our case we run the script from a production server and the result is written to an internal server which is located in the office. That way no office equipment needs to access the load balancers.

/Patrik

New version: 4.4.1

• Removed the ASM support as it only caused issues. Will add support for version 12.1 and above later.
• Added preferences with possibility to auto expand pool details and links to virtual servers and pools in the LTM interface.

It is recommended, but not necessary to also update the configuration xml file since it contains properties that is not used anymore.

/Patrik

Screenshot of the new version: