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Please note that it takes time to make these so sometimes they're a bit outdated and they only cover one HA pair.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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Also trying out a Discord channel now. You're welcome to hang out with us there:
Code :
85931,86647,90730
Tested this on version:
13.0
974 Comments
- TimRiker
Cirrocumulus
This is to avoid flooding the F5 with pool polling requests. Imagine in our setup if someone went to the virtual server view and selected "Show all" below, and marked preferences to expand all pools. On our setup that would generate around 12,000 pool status requests every poll cycle. That seems a bit excessive. :)
LucernNimbostratus
I bumped it to 50 and it's still disabled :(
Ohh wait.. Now it's working for some reason... Wow, it's kinda testy, ain't it? I guess it knew I was disappointed in it so it goes its act together! :)
I see why! It appears that it does a couple cycles where it says 'disabled' then it'll start working. But before when I had 2 pools set it never enabled.
All good now! Thanks!!
Great to hear Lucern. The polling was a pain to develop and I know it takes a bit of patience to set up. But I reckon it's worth it in the long run.
/Patrik
- Lucern
You guys nailed it, I just had to understand what was going on!
Thanks, and looking forward to the next release!
Josue_Alvarado_Can I run this on CentOS? not in windows?
- TimRiker
The current version is written in Powershell using an iControl Snap in. This only works on Windows. I've experimented with calling the SOAP services directly from powershell. If we converted that portion, then it would run on powershell on any platform.
The output files can be hosted by any web server, but the generation process only runs on Windows.
- Johan_Lindroth
I think I found a bug.
When one of your BigIPs is turned off/shutdown but it's still left in the "bigipreportconfig" the bigip-report will load, but only show a blank page. After removing the device that was turned off/shutdown everything was showing again.
Keep up the good work with this!
Hi Johan
Thanks for reporting. Which version are you running?
/Patrik
- TimRiker
In the Beta config there is an option for "ErrorReportAnyway" which generates the report even when some load balancers are unreachable. Are you running the Beta? Do you have this option set?
- Johan_Lindroth
Hi,
I'm running 5.0.9.
