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Please note that it takes time to make these so sometimes they're a bit outdated and they only cover one HA pair.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 :
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Tested this on version:
13.0
Updated Dec 08, 2022
Version 2.0
- Hi Andrew! Which variables have you configured. What happens if you in the powershell window enter "$pools" and press enter. I suspect that you've missed something in the config section.
mike_89584Nimbostratus
Fantastic! - is it possible to auto refresh? / make it dynamic? - also in our particular scenario, we want to monitor one particular pool, and would be great if that could be made to be the default page? (with node view expanded? ) many thanks- Hi Mike! Thank you for your nice comments! Making it dynamic (getting realtime data) is too slow, but you could make it auto refresh. As it is today though you should bet a yellow/red button saying that a new report is available. I chose that way because I figured it would be annoying to look at a report data post and suddenly the page reloaded. Regarding the start page I might suggest that you use the share feature of the report and use that link to access the report. Would that work?
- AndyI have been trying to run this against a list of 45 F5, with ~750 VIPs but with no success. The script interrogates the F5 correctly and parses the information but no files are output, is there an upper limit on the amount of files that can be parsed? Also I tried running this in separate scripts and noticed that the output uses html absolute paths, rather than relative paths within the web server, if this were resolved I could split this into multiple scripts which seemed to resolve my issue.
- Hi Andy! That's quite many machines. :) You say the F5 parses the information from the F5's which means that the data collection should work. You can double check this by entering "$pools" in the Powershell prompt after the script has been running. If you get a long list of pools you should be good to go in terms of that. Another thing that could be an issue could be if one of the load balancers has not returned any data to the script (refer to the last section of the script where $loadbalancerdatamissing is set). Double check the execution to check for errors, or manually set the $loadbalancerdatamissing to $true before the check occurs.
DebenB_254182@ paul.dawson Think you have to adjust PS ExecutionPolicy ; please check below Get-ExecutionPolicy –List ---> List all policies Set-ExecutionPolicy AllSigned -Scope CurrentUser ---> Set execution policy for current user- Hi Paul Which version of TMM are you running? The powershell script has a section where you can enable/disable TLS1.2. If the F5 powershell snap-in is not able to negotiate a cipher it will throw an exception that indicates invalid credentials, but this is NOT true. Also, get-credentials will not help you in this case as the user and password variables expects a string. I would also recommend you to run the script as a non-admin use later when you have made everything work as it does not require and special permissions on the server (just access to write the html files to the web root). Please update this thread if you still have problems.
- Could be newer version of powershell than I use. I will issue a patch soon. Hang on. :)
- Try the new version and please let me know if that solved it for you? Out of curiosity, could you please tell me the PS-version running on your server? Would like to figure out if it's a policy setting of version issue. /Patrik
- Hi Paul! The color setting you're looking for is in /css/bigipreportstyle.css. :) /Patrik
