BIG-IP Report

Problem this snippet solves:

Overview

This is a script which will generate a report of the BIG-IP 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 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 auditor (read-only) permissions on your devices.

Demo/Preview

Interactive demo

http://loadbalancing.se/bigipreportdemo/

Screen shots

The main report:

The device overview:

Certificate details:

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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).

Updated Oct 16, 2024
Version 11.0
application delivery
devops
iControl
LTM
microsoft powershell with icontrol
  • Patrik_Jonsson's avatar
    Patrik_Jonsson
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    Jan 31, 2023

    New version out that fixes syntax iRules syntax highlighting and revamps the direct hash links. There's also a lot of quality work in this one (kudos TimRiker !):
    https://loadbalancing.se/downloads/bigipreport-v5.7.0.zip

    Big thanks to TimRiker for his relentless improvements and patience with unit tests and integration tests. This one was all him. 🙂

    Also, I have created new docker builds with vulnerability fixes starting from v5.7.0 (base image has been updated) and updated some node dependencies for security reasons.

  • Mathieu_Cerfon1's avatar
    Mathieu_Cerfon1
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    Sep 14, 2023

    Hi Patrik,

    We recently moved our bigip-report to a doker since our old windows server is going to be end of support.

    unfortunately, with the same setup, same users, i always got a 401 F5 Authorization failed.

    I've tried a lot of think suggested in the topics and on : 

    https://loadbalancing.se/bigipreport-rest/#Authentication_failed_see_inner_exception

    https://loadbalancing.se/2021/03/28/installing-troubleshooting-and-running-bigip-ingress-controller/#Authentication_issues

    I also check F5 possible bugs ID but still nothing.

    From the docker itself, curl is working perfectly : I can get the token and the list of pools.

    Also tried to moved the user from Guest access all partitions to full admin : nothing

    Any idea what could cause the issue ? 

    Best regards, 

  • Patrik_Jonsson's avatar
    Patrik_Jonsson
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    Sep 14, 2023

    Hi Mathieu

    Since you've tried using curl from within the container I reckon you've ruled out network issues at least.
    One thing you could try is to try to re-create the config file (start with a new one, don't re-use the old) if you have not done so already.

    Windows and linux has different line breaks and I've also had the pleasure of experiencing garbage characters more than once.

    Which version of BigIPReport are you using and which version of TMOS are you running?

    Kind regards,
    Patrik

     

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    Patrik_Jonsson
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    Sep 15, 2023

    Hi Mathieu
    Although I was hoping for a fun troubleshooting session over discord I'm glad that it worked out for you!

    Always fun to hear from users of the project, be it over mail, message or comments. ❤️

    Kind regards, 
    Patrik

  • Mathieu_Cerfon1's avatar
    Mathieu_Cerfon1
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    Sep 18, 2023

    Hi Patrik,

    Me as well, I'm a bit disapointed that was such a simple human mistakes ! I could do better lol

    Anyway thank you for your support 😉

    Regards,

  • LiefZimmerman's avatar
    LiefZimmerman
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    Apr 22, 2021

    Due to a platform corruption during the 2019 migration I have worked with   team to move his original legacy codeshare to this new record (same URL).

    The legacy codeshare is temporarily available at https://devcentral.f5.com/s/articles/bigip-report-old

     

    The negative repercussions of this change are:

    • the nearly 1000 historical comments appear that they must will have to remain on the legacy record.
    • the numerous *likes* stayed with the legacy record (smash that like at the top right of this page!! if you like it)
    • anyone bookmarking that legacy record will not be notified of changes made here (click that bookmark icon)

     

    The positive repercussions of this are:

    • Patrik can now make edits to the entry - making updates more likely and timely. (a deep in the weeds corruption I couldn't ferret out)
    • You all only have to deal with one set of comments here - making conversation easier. (another part of the corruption)
    • And, looking on the bright side of a negative, I don't have to find out (yet) what happens when the comment counter rolls over to 1000.😩

     

    Thank you for your patience and persistence with Patrik's awesome contribution and thank you for your dedication to our community.

  • Patrik_Jonsson's avatar
    Patrik_Jonsson
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    May 26, 2021

    New release v5.5.9. Well done Tim!

    I've updated the Kubernetes containers with the new code and also triggered the :latest tag for you Cowboys who likes to use that. :)

     

    Got questions/feedback/an insatiable lust for nerd talk? Join us on Discord:

    https://discord.gg/W2y2cFX7

     

    Kind regards,

    Patrik