BigIP Report Old
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This is a script which will generate a report of the BigIP LTM configuration on all your load balancers making it easy to find information and get a comprehensive overview of virtual servers and pools connected to them.
This information is used to relay information to our NOC and developers to give them insight in where things are located and to be able to plan patching and deploys. I also use it myself as a quick way get information or gather data used as a foundation for RFC's, ie get a list of all external virtual servers without compression profiles.
The script has been running on 13 pairs of load balancers, indexing over 1200 virtual servers for several years now and the report is widely used across the company and by many companies and governments across the world.
It's easy to setup and use and only requires guest permissions on your devices.
Demo/Preview
Please note that it takes time to make these so sometimes they're a bit outdated and they only cover one HA pair. However, they still serve the purpose of showing what you can expect from the report.
Interactive demo
http://loadbalancing.se/bigipreportdemo/
Screen shots
The main report:
The device overview:
Certificate details:
How to use this snippet:
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Installation instructions
BigipReport REST
This is the only branch we're updating since middle of 2020 and it supports 12.x and upwards (maybe even 11.6).
Download: https://loadbalancing.se/downloads/bigipreport-v5.5.4.zip
Documentation, installation instructions and troubleshooting: https://loadbalancing.se/bigipreport-rest/
Docker support
This will be the recommended way of running bigipreport in the near future. It's still undergoing testing but it's looking really good so far.
https://loadbalancing.se/2021/01/05/running-bigipreport-on-docker/
BigipReport (Legacy)
Older version of the report that only runs on Windows and is depending on a Powershell plugin originally written by Joe Pruitt (F5).
BigipReport (Stable):
https://loadbalancing.se/downloads/bigipreport-5.3.1.zip
BigipReport (BETA): https://loadbalancing.se/downloads/bigipreport-5.4.0-beta.zip
iControl Snapin: https://loadbalancing.se/downloads/f5-icontrol.zip
Documentation and installation instructions:
https://loadbalancing.se/bigip-report/
Upgrade instructions
Protect the report using APM and active directory
Written by DevCentral member Shann_P:
https://loadbalancing.se/2018/04/08/protecting-bigip-report-behind-an-apm-by-shannon-poole/
Got issues/problems/feedback?
Still have issues? Drop a comment below. We usually reply quite fast. Any bugs found, issues detected or ideas contributed makes the report better for everyone, so it's always appreciated.
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Code :
85931,86647,90730
Tested this on version:
13.0
Updated Dec 08, 2022
Version 2.0
dragonflymrCirrostratus
OK, let's forget it. Too much work for too little gains. Maybe I will try to dig in a bit (refreshing my Datatables knowledge from ancient past :-) and figure out something.
Visualization is not the problem in my opinion - even for traffic-group. Let's say you will turn on grouping by traffic-group. So in the collapsed view you will just see list of traffic-groups on the device/devices. When plus is clicked all VS under this traffic-group are shown, in the same way as list looks right now. And why traffic-group is not possible? Traffic Group infor is already retrieved from devices, so where is a problem?
I think example from this link is https://datatables.net/extensions/rowgroup/examples/initialisation/event.html is close - so you have some static grouping list above table, when clicked grouping is applied (as in the example), only missing point is adding accordion but this is somehow cosmetic.
Maybe instead of static link area above table (like in the example) dynamic popup element could be generated with list of all parameters of VS that make sense for grouping (maybe another popup for pool as well)
But still this is not so important just tried to figure out if it is possible and how much work would be required to implement - seems that a lot so let's leave it.
Piotr
"Visualization is not the problem in my opinion - even for traffic-group. Let's say you will turn on grouping by traffic-group. So in the collapsed view you will just see list of traffic-groups on the device/devices. When plus is clicked all VS under this traffic-group are shown, in the same way as list looks right now. And why traffic-group is not possible? Traffic Group infor is already retrieved from devices, so where is a problem?"I see what you mean now. This would be nice, and would be easier if the data source was json. In this case however, it'd be a bit of a pain to accomplish. Love the idea though so in the future if I rewrite it I will remember this. 🙂
/Patrik
- dragonflymr
Glad you like it, seems that I am not completely crazy ;-). At least there is already data in json stored so maybe it will not be complete revolution.
Piotr
RRNF5Nimbostratus
Quick Question - How do i show all the entries on one page? Current i can only view 10, 25, 50, 100 at any time.
You can't do that a time the moment without modifying the javascript. I'll add this to the list of feature requests.
/Patrik
- RRNF5
I have found in the "jquery.dataTables.min" aLengthMenu:[10,25,50,100] - Can i change to aLengthMenu:[10,25,50,100,"All"]
Yes, that's the way to go. But you'd lose the changes with future versions. Let me see if I can add it.
/Patrik
Releasing 4.6.4
- Added "All" to the Pagination options.
/Patrik
- RRNF5
Thanks Patrick, will give that a try - if i replace my current JS folder with this would that work too?
Yes, if you're going from 4.6.3 it will. In general I recommend to replace the bigipreport.ps1 script and the front-end content folders (js, img, css etc) each time you upgrade.
If any configuration file changes are required I will point that out in the "release comment".
/Patrik
