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Hi,

Thanks a lot.

Piotr

Hi,

Another idea that just came to my mind. Maybe not so complicated. I just noticed ready to use commands using curl or netcat for testing pool members.

It's not exactly the same but triggered my idea - would it be complicated to attach links to for example persistence profile or clientssl profile (my first idea is using iControlREST) to retrieve whole config of such object - something like when issuing tmsh list command in CLI.

So it would be easy to check how given object/profile is exactly configured without touching BIG-IP GUI or CLI.

Piotr

Just noticed that monitor retrieval works only when monitor is applied at the pool level. If there is no monitor at the pool level but instead monitor/s is set using Member Specific at pool member level, nothing is retrieved.

Wonder if that can be fixed?

Piotr

The REST API would be great, but CORS would stop so that can't be done. :(

I know about the member level monitor. When I wrote the report we did not have any of those so I simply skipped it. Will add it to the list. :)

/Patrik

I am pretty sure that CORS means Cross-Origin Resource Sharing - Am I right? So you mean that it would not be possible to create HTTP request from withing Java Script used on the BIGIPReport page - is that what you mean for "can't be done"?

Pool level monitor is not so urgent or important but would be nice to have :-)

What about grouping column feature I mentioned before - is that not possible/to complicated to be done?

Piotr

Hi!

You're right, the browser would kill the request "pre flight" because the F5 REST API does not have Allow-Origin headers that matches the domain of your bigipreport.

Sorry, I missed that. That kind of grouping would be too complex with datatables, but might be possible if I created my own frontend. I started with that but it took so much time that I froze it until later.

Tip:

You can filter per column for things that is not shown. Ie. searching for "DOWN", or "UP, or "DISABLED" would find members with that state. I am planning to make this more obvious later on.

/Patrik

Datatables - I am pretty sure I was playing around with it. I just did some quick search, can't this feature be used for row grouping https://datatables.net/extensions/rowgroup/?

What can be filtered in per column filter? I can see that status of VS can be used but for example LB algorithm for Pool not.

Piotr

P.S. Really bad that implementing iControlREST is not possible, would be great to figure out some workaround for that.

I saw that one too, but the demos were not very user friendly and I don't think they do what you intend them to do?

Check out this page for examples:

https://datatables.net/extensions/rowgroup/examples/

/Patrik

You right, most of the examples are not promising, too static and there is no way to collapse groups to hide members (but probably possible to be done?).

However this one look promising, still a bit static but better than nothing https://datatables.net/extensions/rowgroup/examples/initialisation/event.html

Take note about:

• Group by Position
• Group by Office
• Group by Age

Above table.

Piotr

P.S I found such example that is very close to what I am looking for https://datatables.net/examples/api/row_details.html

Maybe I have misunderstood your initial suggestion but let me respond to it as how I interpreted it.

The difference here is that the example you linked to is using Json as data source while Bigipreport uses static HTML. It does a bit like what I did with the pool details and the functionality is more about hiding/showing information rather than grouping. And it's not dynamic (you can't choose different group parameters).

Looking at the initial suggestion and combining that with the link:

• VSs using same IP - I think this would not make sense for a lot of companies. Some hosts significantly different types of applications separated by port. You can sort of achieve this today by filtering the IP column, but it's not grouped.
• VSs belonging to given traffic group - This is not possible today, but if it was the group in question might be huge depending on your configuration. Not sure how to visualize this in a nice way?
• VSs using same pool - This can be achieved by filtering the pool column.

/Patrik