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Hi Patrik , How about adding BigIP device status in Load Balancer column as Active/Standby. This will be very helpful in identification in case of cluster.

Hi,

Thanks again for great work! I have a question about pool to VS mapping. From demo report page it looks like pool assignment via iRule is detected, is assignment via Local Traffic Policy detected as well?

I assume that when pool is listed as Orphan pool, iRule assignment is as well checked but is Local Traffic Policy checked as well?

Considering improvements I wonder if VIP membership in Traffic Group would be hard to be implemented - at least at the level of data retrieved in json file, not as part of data displayed via GUI?

Piotr

Hi guys

Thank you for the feedback, it's much appreciated.

Emad, I have a plan to allow the user to add multiple F5's.

    f501.domain.local
    f502.domain.local
    f502.domain.local

In this case the script would only register devices that are active. Would this qualify as a solution to your request?

Piotr, I have been considering supporting both pool connections via Traffic Policies but since we don't use traffic policies at my company I have not added it yet due to lack of experience. Will add it to the official enhancement list though as it's a good idea.

"Considering improvements I wonder if VIP membership in Traffic Group would be hard to be implemented - at least at the level of data retrieved in json file, not as part of data displayed via GUI?"

Do you mean adding an additional column with the traffic group information?

/Patrik

Adding column in the GUI would be great, but for now I am looking just for a way to add Traffic Group info to json data about VS. So based on VS IP and VIP assignment to given Traffic Group add property to VS json data like "tg":"name of traffic group"

Hope it make sense.

Piotr

There is something wrong with this check for versions higher than 11.x - for example 12.1.1

if($MajorVersion -gt 11 -or ($MajorVersion -eq 11 -and $Minorversion -gt 3))

With this check enabled I am not getting info about SNAT setting. I had to disable it to get correct data.

Piotr

Makes sense regarding the traffic group. Adding that to the backlog.

Regarding the check, could you please try this?

if([int]$MajorVersion -gt 11 -or ([int]$MajorVersion -eq 11 -and [int]$Minorversion -gt 3))

/Patrik

Thanks, will try this one and get back with results.

Piotr

Hi,

Still the same results. Code is now like that:

if([int]$MajorVersion -gt 11 -or ([int]$MajorVersion -eq 11 -and [int]$Minorversion -gt 3)){
    $virtualserversourceaddresstranlationtypelist = $f5.LocalLBVirtualServer.get_source_address_translation_type($virtualserverlist)
    $virtualserversourceaddresssnatpool = $f5.LocalLBVirtualServer.get_source_address_translation_snat_pool($virtualserverlist)
}

and

if([int]$MajorVersion -gt 11 -or ([int]$MajorVersion -eq 11 -and [int]$Minorversion -gt 3)){
    $objTempVirtualServer.sourcexlatetype = [string]$virtualserversourceaddresstranlationtypelist[$i]
    $objTempVirtualServer.sourcexlatepool = [string]$virtualserversourceaddresssnatpool[$i]
} else {
    $objTempVirtualServer.sourcexlatetype = "OLDVERSION"
    $objTempVirtualServer.sourcexlatepool = "OLDVERSION"
}

Result is N/A in Bigip versions prior to 11.3

BTW, is there any simple PS code to create report (from CLI) using json file containing listing of all unique values for given parameter, let's say list all unique IPs used by VSs or unique ports etc.?

Piotr

Could you paste the error message you get in terms of the line? And describe and the symptoms? I have not seen an issue regarding this particular line myself.

About your json question. Something like this?

Create new webclient object
$WebClient = New-Object System.Net.WebClient
Enable integrated authentication
$WebClient.UseDefaultCredentials = $true
Get the json objects
$Virtualservers = ($WebClient.DownloadString("https://loadbalancing.se/bigipreportdemo/json/virtualservers.json")) | ConvertFrom-Json

$Virtualservers.ip | select -unique | where-object { $_ -ne "N/A (Orphan pool)" }

/Patrik

Hi,

I am not sure what error message? Script is executing without any error. Only problem is that in VS details via GUI I have this result:

If I will remove if(... part an leave just:

$virtualserversourceaddresstranlationtypelist = $f5.LocalLBVirtualServer.get_source_address_translation_type($virtualserverlist)
$virtualserversourceaddresssnatpool = $f5.LocalLBVirtualServer.get_source_address_translation_snat_pool($virtualserverlist)

and

$objTempVirtualServer.sourcexlatetype = [string]$virtualserversourceaddresstranlationtypelist[$i]
$objTempVirtualServer.sourcexlatepool = [string]$virtualserversourceaddresssnatpool[$i]

correct data about SNAT is presented in GUI.

Thanks for sample code, I will try it and see if it's what I need.

Piotr