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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Please note that it takes time to make these so sometimes they're a bit outdated and they only cover one HA pair.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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Also trying out a Discord channel now. You're welcome to hang out with us there:
Code :
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Tested this on version:
13.0
974 Comments
LucernNimbostratus
Yup, all HTTPS! Like I said it all worked perfectly before the upgrade.
- danielpenna
Cirrus
Hey Patrick, Just wanted to say thanks again for all the awesome work that you are doing with this for close to 2 years now. We have had this deployed now for close to 18 months and has made my F5 upgrades much easier as I can supply app teams with links to their configuration etc.
- Lucern
I've enabled verbose logging and I'm not seeing anything in there that gives any hints. Is there any other debugging I can enable that might help tracking this down?
Thanks!
- TimRiker
Cirrocumulus
Does the log page show it working? Can you click on the test in the log view and get valid json back?
There are new limits in the config xml. Have you set those?
2 1 60MaxPools sets the max pools we can check at one time. If there are more than MaxPools open, then polling is disabled. This is an attempt to avoid flooding the F5 with pool update requests.
Thank you Daniel for these kind words. Please also remember to give credit to Tim for his additions. :)
/Patrik
Lucern
Have you followed the FAQ steps?
https://loadbalancing.se/bigip-report/The_member_status_polling_says_it8217s_disabled
If you still can't get it to work we can book a Skype session.
/Patrik
- Lucern
Guys,
Yes, any of the status VIPs that show up in the log I'm able to click on no problem and the nodes say UP. I'm using the default values of 2,1,60 as shown above.
I've been through all the troubleshooting steps in the FAQ and everything checks out..
Very strange..
- Lucern
I went back to 5.0.9 and it's working fine again. Guess I'll stick with this for now, but I'll definitely give the next beta a shot!
Thanks guys!
- TimRiker
The "2" above for MaxPools is probably a poor default. It means if you have more than 2 pools open, no updates will happen.
What's a better value? I've got some VIPs that have around 90 different pools in them. I don't want to see hundreds of pool update request, but if I'm less than 100 these large VIPs won't ever update.
Try changing the 2, to something like 50 and see if that works for you. In the message:
Disabled, 0 of 2 pools open,
the second value is the configured limit. No polling happens if no pools are open, and no polling happens if more pools than MaxPools are open.
- Lucern
By pools open you mean pools that are just getting traffic? Oh boy, I sure hope there are more than 2 active! :)
Hmmmm.. Okay, I'll have to play around some more!
Thanks!
