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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Please note that it takes time to make these so sometimes they're a bit outdated and they only cover one HA pair.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:

https://discord.gg/7JJvPMYahA

Code :

85931,86647,90730

Tested this on version:

13.0

Updated Dec 08, 2022
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  • Sergio_B_'s avatar
    Sergio_B_
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    Mar 26, 2019

    Hi Patrik.

     

    We have Big-IPs used by different departments and each department has its own Partition. Could it be possible to get a “high level” filter by Partition?

     

    Thanks for a great work!

     

  • Patrik_Jonsson's avatar
    Patrik_Jonsson
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    Mar 26, 2019

    Hi Sergio

     

    Could you please elaborate what you mean by high level filter?

     

    Kind regards, Patrik

     

  • Sergio_B_'s avatar
    Sergio_B_
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    Mar 26, 2019

    I mean, for instance a combo box filter on top of the current “Search all columns” field.

     

     

  • JustCooLpOOLe's avatar
    JustCooLpOOLe
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    Mar 27, 2019

    Hi Patrik,

     

    Is there a limit to the number of Virtual Server configurations that this report will allow? I'm starting to see some lag with the polling. I've set it to every 60 seconds but it's not reporting a disabled pool member after the polling time has elapsed. We did recently upgrade our boxes to 13.1.2 if that helps at all.

     

  • Patrik_Jonsson's avatar
    Patrik_Jonsson
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    Mar 27, 2019

    Hi

     

    @Sergio

     

    You can filter by partition in the virtual server partition by ie. entering /partition/ as the column filter. A drop down would be prettier but this should also do the trick.

     

    @Shann

     

    Tim added polling thresholds to the config in the last PR. How many items is in your view when the polling is not working as you expected it to? If you have less items in the view, does it work then?

     

  • Tom_K's avatar
    Tom_K
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    May 09, 2019

    Patrik - is there a requirement to use powershell on windows or can I use powershell on linux ? By the way we have used your BigIP Report for 3 years now and it is awesome. Thanks, Tom

     

  • Patrik_Jonsson's avatar
    Patrik_Jonsson
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    May 16, 2019

    Hi Tom!

    Sorry for the late reply, I've been waiting for the DC relaunch. :)

     

    Thanks for your kind words. I'm glad you like it. I haven't been able to run it on Linux since the report is using a custom Powershell Snap-In written by an ex F5 employee. I am working on a Docker version of the report using Node but it's slow work (kids and day job). :)

     

    /Patrik