Managing BIG-IP Licensing With BIG-IQ

Hi,

I know this is not cloud related question but are there any plans to include hardware keys management as well as maybe license contracts management in BIG-IQ?

Piotr

Are you referring to license keys for hardware appliances? If so, it does that and can do that in parallel with other license types.

Regarding license contracts, are there specific types of contract licensing you're referring to? BIG-IQ will do subscription and volume key management offline and online (offline you'd pull a subscription report and submit it to F5).

I've seen several demos of various license states so I may be able to share some of that up if I know what I'm looking for.

Hi,

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Piotr

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Hi,

I was under impression that BIG-IQ can manage Base Registration Key (BRK) only for BIG-IP VE, seems that I am wrong.

Where in BIG-IQ I should look to see hardware BRK? Devices > LICENSE MANAGEMENT > Licenses? Then I can use Add Device to add BRK or Add-on? Sure for hardware managing BRK do not make much sense (those are most of the time embedded) but managing Add-ons makes sense.

When importing BIG-IP there is little info related to serials or BRK displayed in the GUI (Devices > BIG-IP DEVICES > [device name] > PROPERTIES). Only way I found to see serial and BRK was via Export Inventory.

There is as well nothing created in Devices > LICENSE MANAGEMENT > Licenses/Assignments after discovering/importing BIG-IP.

Considering license contracts I was not precise. I meant Service Contacts (like L1-L3) for hardware and modules installed. Just to have all related info in one place. Then it would be great to have ability to set alerts informing that such contracts are about to expire.

Hope it makes more sense now.

If you can provide mentioned links it would be great!

Thanks in advance,

Piotr

Centralised support contract management/reporting would be fantastic. Having License Manager available as a part of the CM module has been a great help keeping track of many licenses as VEs come and go.

Hi, BIG-IQ only supports BIG-IP VE licensing, there is no support for BIG-IP hardware-based licenses/regkeys at this time.

BIG-IQ does not support service contract management at this time.

-jc

Hi,

That was my impression. Thanks for confirmation. Do you know about any plans to implement any of those functionalities?

Piotr

Poitr, I am not aware of any plans at this point. I can check with the product manager and/or ask him to reply.

We have the service contract reporting and alerting in our backlog for BIG-IQ, but it is not yet tied to a release. It would likely require that the BIG-IQ has access to pull this data directly (or via a proxy) from F5, to make sure we have the latest data.

@jennings.harlen - you are quite welcome, come back here with any questions you may have.