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Just tested it, script runs however the index page doesn't seem to load.

Error:

There were errors when loading the object json files

The following json files did not load:

I have created the web.config file with the following.

 <system.webServer>

  <staticContent>

   <mimeMap fileExtension=".json" mimeType="application/json" />

  </staticContent>

 </system.webServer>

You show the error, but not the files that didn't load. The 5.3.1 release creates a json/preferences.json when it runs. Do you have that file? Older builds do not create this file.

My beta 5.4.0 also creates and uses this file.

Can you see files in the json directory? If you are installed on https://bigipreport.example.com/ then go to https://bigipreport.example.com/json/preferences.json for example.

@Tim, thanks for the reply, seems I overlooked the default document setting, when changing this to index.html it started working.

This was removed "<mimeMap fileExtension=".json" mimeType="application/json" />" as it's not required on IIS 10.

Thanks again for speedy response and assistance, my next steps is to get this running in a mixed environment V12, V15, over a WAN link with 100+ F5 Devices.

I'm planning to use both scripts, to cater for both V12 and V15, at least until all of them are on V15, do you have any recommendations for doing this over a WAN link?

v5.4.0 tries to talk to all the configured f5s in parallel. Running over 100 in one xml will put a serious load on the box. I'll look into putting a process limit on it. In theory we can start some scripts as the other scripts end and get better performance out of it. I've run against 34 f5s and the old script doing them in series took over a half hour to run. The new one runs in less than 15 minutes, but with much higher cpu load on the box running the script.

I run the build script over vpn against all our f5s that are remote without issues. We have a number of different datacenters including an instance at Amazon and I've had no issues with the WAN.

With v14 an v15 I have had issues with REST (and ssh) logins.  mentions above the tmsh commands to alter the ldap timeout. I'm testing that now on our development systems.

I'm still running both the release and beta versions, one on the half hour, and one on the hour. They both seem to run fine. My live F5s are v13 through v15 systems.

Interested to hear how 100 systems scales. Does the box you run the script on have many cores? It should take advantage of that. Worst case you may have to split them up and have multiple versions of the report until I put some process throttling in place.

Keep me posted!

@Tim, I haven't tested this yet, however I have built the server specifically for this function. I only plan to run the script once or twice a day per device. The idea is more towards searching of irules/configurations/certs etc. I'm curious as to how you are using the single index.html file for all 34 of your devices? If you are utilizing both scripts in parallel they should overwrite eachother which would defeat the purpose of a central place for all your configurations?

I was thinking of creating a new html which would references the index file for both script versions I.e. 5.3.1 and 5.4.0.

But my scripting knowledge is limited, I'm currently doing a POC on BIG IQ as well which should resolve the above challenges.

I must say I have been using 5.3.1 for a while and very happy with it.

 Currently I run the release version on the root of the website, and the beta version in a /test/ directory. So I have /json/ for the release and /test/json/ for the beta. In the beta I added a config entry for NavLinks and I add there a link back to the main version as well as a link to the json/ directory as I have people using the json files for reporting. Example:

<NavLinks>
  <NavLink>
    <Text>release</Text>
    <URI>../</URI>
  </NavLink>
  <NavLink>
    <Text>json</Text>
    <URI>json/</URI>
  </NavLink>
</NavLinks>

Glad you like 5.3.1! I'm interested to hear how 5.4.0 works for you. 🙂

 Going to give this a bash, thanks for the NavLink this is very helpful. 🍺

I might also use the json data as well as an alternative for reporting.

Will keep you posted 😊

 I added a MaxJobs setting to the xml and prepped a 5.4.1 beta release. You can download it here:

https://github.com/epacke/BigIPReport/raw/timriker/Releases/BigIPReport-5.4.1.zip

Until  posts it above.

HI  

Get the following error message when executing.

Do you mind if I move our comments to github?

So we do not fill up this page with comments?

https://github.com/epacke/BigIPReport/issues/176#issuecomment-635775253

PS C:\BigIP\BigIPReport-5.4.1> .\bigipreport-5.4.1.ps1

2020-05-29 05:43:17 Successfully loaded the config file: C:\BigIP\BigIPReport-5.4.1/bigipreportconfig.xml

2020-05-29 05:43:17 Starting: PSCommandPath=C:\BigIP\BigIPReport-5.4.1\bigipreport-5.4.1.ps1 ConfigurationFile=C:\BigIP\BigIPReport-5.4.1/bigipreportconfig.xml PollLoadBalancer= Location= PSScriptRoot=C:\BigIP\BigIPReport-5.4.1

2020-05-29 05:43:17 Pre-execution checks

2020-05-29 05:43:17 Pre execution checks were successful

Add-Type: C:\BigIP\BigIPReport-5.4.1\bigipreport-5.4.1.ps1:731

Line |

 731 | Add-Type @'

   | ~~~~~~~~~~~

   | Cannot add type. The type name 'Certificate' already exists.

 Same issue posted above. The script defines some structure. Different releases have slightly different structures. Don't run different versions of the script in the same powershell instance.

The stable version runs on PowerShell 5. The beta version requires at least PowerShell 6. I'm testing on PowerShell 7.0.1 now.

Startup a new window, or spawn a child shell (pwsh.exe) and run the script there.

These "types" are added in Add-Type, but there is no Remove-Type that I am aware of, so you have to start a new shell.