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Patrik

Thank you for your reply!

I'm not sure what you mean by "where did you get these recommendations?" Do you mean my HTML recommendations? Those are just from HTML 5 standards. For example, try running the output html through the W3C Validator and you will see issues.

We have multiple F5's that we administer. On our simpler systems, the BIG-IP Report works fine. On the larger systems, the report runs through correctly, but does not load. The progress bar goes through to 99% but the report never displays. The json files look fine. If I load them directly in Chrome using a json formatter plugin, they parse just fine. Here are the json numbers for a failing report:

• rules - 1450 items
• pools - 1789 items
• virtualservers - 1710 items

The report html that fails to display is 10080759 bytes in size on my last run.

Patrik I've changed all src= references removing the explicit dot slash in front of json, images, etc. Just trivial byte size savings.

I removed whitespace from trailing lines. ie: lines with just multiple tabs, became empty lines. I also converted spaces to tabs in a number of sections. This cleans up the source view, and also cleans up the output report.

line 1726 I added an alt TextStatus to the Translate-Member-Status return to help with HTML 5 accessibility recommendations and to reduce the warnings on the W3C validator.

Patrik In order to get my failing index.html to pass through the W3C validator I reduce its side by removing leading, trailing, and other whitespace from my html first. This reduces it to about 8M instead of 10M.

All other built in img src references should really have an alt something added to them. I added most of those.

The javascript console in Chrome does NOT show an error for our example that does not display. I do see three deprecation warnings about chrome loadTimes. This warning is a bit odd, because I don't see you directly using it anywhere.

Thanks again for the reply! And thank you so much for the useful too! I can't really send you my failing html or json files due to information they contain. I'm happy to test any suggestions you might have. I'm trying to walk through the javascript now to see if I can determine what is failing on load.

Sorry for the multiple posts. The SPAM checking refused to let me post all this as a single note. :(

Patrik I cloned the github repo, redid and committed my local changes, and submitted a pull request. I've still not found why I'm failing, this is just cleanup.

The output is much closer to passing W3C validation.

I notice that "edit" links are broken to orphan pools as they have spaces in the url.

Thanks again!

Hi Tim!

Thanks for the contributions!

To troubleshoot I think we'd need to have a Skype call. It'd also be great if you could separate the changes made into smaller portions to make the review process simpler and making it easier to spot bugs.

I can see that you've removed some trailing and heading white space for instance. Maybe these could be in a separate PR?

/Patrik

Redoing my commits and splitting them up. The first is the great whitespace cleanup.

My changes are after the whitespace cleanup. I'm having trouble getting them to apply against the original.

Would you consider applying the whitespace pull request first?

Hi Rbennet

Sorry for the late reply, I've been a bit busy.

Did you manage to get the report up and running without the status VIPs? That's a good first step before braving this slightly more advanced feature.

The bigipreport_pool_status.tcl file is just a text file that contains an iRule used to serve pool real-time pool statuses from each load balancer. What do you mean that it prints the XML and not HTML?

If we fail here I'd be happy to help out in a Skype session. A Youtube video might be possible in the future but to be honest I'm not good at editing videos... :)

/Patrik

• The report now uses the .NET string builder and it sped up the generation a lot. Big thanks to Tim Riker for that idea!
• White space clean-up (Contributed by Tim Riker)
• Some HTML best practices (Contributed by Tim Riker)

/Patrik

It's a bit too late for me here in Stockholm. Suggest a time tomorrow?

/Patrik

Rbennet, please go ahead and add me using the contact details here.

/Patrik