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I am new to ASM , Is there any report for ASM ( for illegal requests)

Not at the moment. If there was how would you have displayed it in the report?

Always open to suggestions and ideas! :)

/Patrik

Hi,

I am really impressed by this tool. Wonder if there is a way (not requiring being programming guru) to adjust type of info retrieved from BIG-IP and displayed in the report?

For example I would like to be able to have info about Enabled on for VS.

Another very useful function (at least in my opinion) would be easy to manage wizard allowing to list different object usage - like show all VS using given HTTP profile, or all pools given node is used etc. Partially it could be done using search - at least this is my first impression but it seems that not all such summaries can be easily created.

Anyway really great job!!

Piotr

Hi Piotr

Thank you for the feedback! Do you mean that you'd like to add a column for the state of each VS?

About the Wizard idea - It's a great one, but would take very long to accomplish. I've been considering adding some sort of query input field where you can filter the data with a predefined filter syntax. However the challenge here would be to visualize it.

I will add VS state to the feature request list. The other things would need a lot of time and thinking before I do it.

/Patrik

If you want to query the data from the report I also wrote an article about it here:

https://loadbalancing.se/2016/10/07/synergy-effect-of-running-bigipreport/

I use this frequently to find objects.

/Patrik

Turns out that the VIP status column was already there. :)

/Patrik

Hi,

I meant more generic idea - easily being able to choose which info (configuration parameters) about objects (like VIP, VS, Pool etc.) are retrieved from BIG-IP and then displayed as column in report.

Enabled on was about VLANs, not state of the VS :-)

I will read article. I just started to play around so probably some functionalities are already there I am just not aware about it.

BTW, I am not a programmer at all so improving/changing project like that is beyond my reach. So question to you - do you know about any framework that could be used to visualize relations between objects - like display schemat where there is VS object, related pool/s and pool members then VLANs used and interfaces, something that as well allows to drill down?

Piotr

Would be nice if PS code would use separate bigipreportconfig.xml per version, something like that:

If Bigipreport-4.5.0.ps1 is launched it's using bigipreportconfig-4.5.0.xml If Bigipreport-4.5.5.ps1 is launched it's using bigipreportconfig-4.5.5.xml

Or maybe, if it's easier Bigipreport-X.X.X.ps1 could be executed with argument specifying name and location of bigipreportconfig.xml.

I don't know if the reason I got below error was that I first generated report (using default.html) using Bigipreport-4.5.0.ps1 and then Bigipreport-4.5.5.ps1 (other.html):

2017-08-03      12:53:10        Pre execution checks was successful
Add-Type : Cannot add type. The type name 'VirtualServer' already exists.
At C:\scripts\bigipreport-4.5.5.ps1:513 char:1
+ Add-Type @'
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~
    + CategoryInfo          : InvalidOperation: (VirtualServer:String) [Add-Type], Exception
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : TYPE_ALREADY_EXISTS,Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.AddTypeCommand

or it's just because 4.5.5 is beta?

Other nice thing to have would be possibility to check given VS, select another device and execute copy to create exactly the same config on another BIG-IP - don't know if easy or at all possible with data that is stored in report?

Piotr

I agree with you, that could be useful in some cases. Reason for the configuration to be the same right now is to make it easy for people to update the report. Most changes does not require a configuration file upgrade. If they do I make sure to put it here. 🙂

2017-08-03      12:53:10        Pre execution checks was successful
Add-Type : Cannot add type. The type name 'VirtualServer' already exists.
At C:\scripts\bigipreport-4.5.5.ps1:513 char:1
+ Add-Type @'
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~
    + CategoryInfo          : InvalidOperation: (VirtualServer:String) [Add-Type], Exception
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : TYPE_ALREADY_EXISTS,Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.AddTypeCommand

This probably means that you are executing the script by pasting it in the same window, or through Powershell ISE. Save it as a ps1 file instead and run it.

Other nice thing to have would be possibility to check given VS, select another device and execute copy to create exactly the same config on another BIG-IP - don't know if easy or at all possible with data that is stored in report?

The script is only meant to be read-only. For changes it'd have to use a server side scripting language and then it'd be security concerns to worry about. Not ready to go down that road. Yet. 🙂

New version:

Added which vlans virtual servers is listening to. This would let people filter through the data to get which virtual servers is listening to a specific VLAN by using ie. powershell.

Not showing the information in Bigipreport yet.

No need to update the configuration file.

/Patrik