Replace B2150 with B2250 when service is expired?
Hello everyone, I have chassis where the last activation date was in June 2017 and service til October 2018. I wanted to change out the blades with B2250 but since I saw "F5 platform: A113" under the base license, I assume this means the two B2250 blades I just purchased would not work in the chassis?:/ Is there a check against the license and the blade type, if so I guess its all just e-waste now?... I am a student so even if F5 would be willing to sell a license for such old unit, I would probably not have the funds for tens of thousands. Could probably do a thousand max, hence my concern...
BIG-IP rseries license
Hi community, I plan to buy 2 new R4600 to replace the current 4000s(c113) ASM licensed. F5 have changed they lincesning model and I am a bit confiused about what exactly I need to purchase. On the new device I need the following features: Basic LTM (VS with 2,3 backend servers) iRules L7 attack protection IPS Can you pelase suggest what license modules cover the above items? I can not go for Best bundle becouse of too high price. Thanks!
F5 VE on Proxmox
Has anybody been successful running F5 BIG-IP VE on Proxmox? Proxmox: Operating System: Debian GNU/Linux 10 (buster) Kernel: Linux 5.0.18-1-pve Architecture: x86-64 F5 VE: virtual edition 14.1.2.2 from downloads.f5.com I tried both qcow2 and .ova(scsi) licensing with trial license obtained from F5 single NIC mode According to https://clouddocs.f5.com/cloud/public/v1/matrix.html, Debian should be supported distribution. Following instructions on https://techdocs.f5.com/kb/en-us/products/big-ip_ltm/manuals/product/bigip-ve-setup-linux-kvm-13-0-0/1.html. Creating new VM in Proxmox: OS: guest OS Linux, 2.6 Kernel, no media for OS Hard Disk: bus SCSI, VirtIO SCSI, NFS storage, QEMU format (qcow2), 100GB CPU: 4 sockets Memory: 8GB Network: bridge vmbr0 openvswitch with appropriate vlan tag, VirtIO, no firewall VM is created replacing just created qcow2 on remote storage with downloaded F5 qcow2 image. VM is started I am able to get prompt in Proxmox console, log in with default root account. But then mcpd keeps on restarting - constantly every few seconds. Logs show errors caused by permission errors. For some reason F5 is complaining that it cannot create "/shared/.snapshots_d/" because of permission problem. However permissions of "/shared" are OK. When I create .snapshots_d folder manually as root, mcpd no longer restarts, no more console errors... I run config utility to setup management IP/mask/gateway. As expected in single NIC mode, https port is automatically configured to 8443. I am able to reach GUI configuration utility and login as admin. Up until now everything looks fine. When trying to license the VM, I am able to generate dossier, also receive the generated license file from F5. But when I apply the license to the VM and click next, it acts as if nothing has happened. GUI keeps showing VE is not yet licensed. LTM logs says: err mcpd: License file open fails, Permission denied. "/config/bigip.license" has read permission for all and write for tomcat. Those are expected permissions for the license file. Funny though, content of /config/bigip.license is now actually populated with the correct new license. But "Registration Key" in "tmsh show sys hardware" is empty. There are several other file system related warnings or errors in logs.. so I suspect that the whole issue is with how F5 VE is accessing file system on Proxmox. But I don't know what to check or fix further. Is it even possible to run F5 VE on Proxmox? (although F5 clearly states it should be.) thx.
BIG-IP license throughput limit tracking
Hi all, I'm looking for a way to track the throughput limit on my BIG-IP appliances using iControl REST API. The problem that I'm having is that I have found a way to do this but I'm sure it will work for the license type that I have, where I am not sure about other license types. I would like for this tool to work if I change my license so this is where I could use your help. I have found perf_VE_throughput_Mbps property on . What I'm wondering if other license types will also contain limit in Mbps within the brackets after the property perf_VE_throughput_Mbps[5000]: { description: "Virtual Edition maximum throughput" }, Furthermore I only have virtual appliances and it would be great if somebody could tell me if this property is present on physical appliances as well and how does it look like. Any help with this would be appreciated. Thanks in advance.
11.6 HTTP compression limit
Hi Guys, I have the default http compression license which provides me compression up to 50mbits, the thing is, I am using maximum 3Mbit/sec of http compression throughput (checking with statistics, it clear show plataform limit 1Gbps, License limit 48Mbps, Current Value 3Mbps, and checking the graph it never go beyond 20Mbps) but I am still getting the following message: Compression license limit of 50 Mbit/s exceeded today. How does this limit works? I thought that as far as I don't cross the 50Mbit/sec limit it should be fine, so I don't know why I am getting this error with only 3Mbit/sec throughput. Can someone help me to understand this? Thanks a lot!
Create or edit "Chargeback Tag" in ELA license
Problem this snippet solves: You are using BIG-IQ Centralized Manager or BIG-IQ License Manager to manage your ELA licenses. The Chargeback Tag is visible on the customer usage reports, and can be useful if you bill across multiple departments within the account. When you first provision a license to a BIG-IP, you have the option to add a free text entry into a field call "Chargeback Tag". However, if you missed this or want to change this tag at a later time, it is currently not possible to add or edit the entry via the BIG-IQ GUI. How to use this snippet: You will need to copy the bash code below and then create a simple CSV file including details of the BIG-IP’s IP Address or MachineID and corresponding Chargeback Tag text you want to create or edit into the /shared directory of BIG-IQ. You will then run the script, which will confirm "Updating" followed by each IP address or MachineID and corresponding Chargeback Tag text. The Chargeback Tag can be seen in the BIG-IQ GUI: Devices >> License Management >> Licenses >> select ELA name >> Select Offering Name of the license type. The Chargeback Tag can also be seen in the reports created and shared each quarter by the Customer Success team. In the /shared directory of BIG-IQ, create a CSV file named update.csv and enter the value pair on a line for each BIG-IP device tag to chage using the format: <BIG-IP IP address1>,<new tag text> <BIG-IP IP address2>,<new tag text> Or <BIG-IP MachineID 1>,<new tag text> <BIG-IP MachineID 2>,<new tag text> For example: cd /shared vi update.csv Enter values: 10.11.10.43,new tag value 10.23.12.100, new tag value Or xxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx,new tag value yyyyyyy-yyyy-yyy-yyy-yyyyyyyyyyyyy,new tag value Save the file. Please note that no inverted commas are needed, and spaces are accepted within the Chargeback Tag value Create a file named update.sh in the same directory using your favourite editor, copy and paste the provided code below and make this file executable with: chmod u+x update.sh Run the script by entering ./update.sh If everything runs correctly, the output showing: Updating <ip address> to 'new tag' Or Updating <MachineId> to 'new tag' will be shown for each entry within the update.csv file Code : > /var/tmp/offerings > /var/tmp/lic-audit curl -s localhost:8100/cm/device/licensing/pool/utility/licenses/ | jq .items[].regKey -r | while read -r regkey ; do curl -s localhost:8100/cm/device/licensing/pool/utility/licenses/$regkey/offerings | jq .items[].id -r | while read -r off ; do curl -s localhost:8100/cm/device/licensing/pool/utility/licenses/$regkey/offerings/$off/members/ | jq .items[].id -r | while read -r id ; do curl -s localhost:8100/cm/device/licensing/pool/utility/licenses/$regkey/offerings/$off/members/$id | jq '.|{add:.deviceAddress,selfLink:.selfLink,deviceMachineId:.deviceMachineId}' -c >> /var/tmp/offerings done done done curl -s localhost:8100/cm/device/licensing/audit/ | jq '.items[]|{add:.address,id:.id,stat:.status,deviceMachineId:.machineId}' -c | grep GRAN >> /var/tmp/lic-audit cat update.csv | while read -r line ; do IP=$(echo $line | cut -d ',' -f1) VAL=$(echo $line | cut -d ',' -f2) echo "Updating $IP to '$VAL'" auditid=$(grep $IP /var/tmp/lic-audit | head -n1 | jq .id -r ) curl -s localhost:8100/cm/device/licensing/audit/$auditid | jq 'del(.generation,.lastUpdateMicros,.chargebackTag)' | jq --arg chargebackTag "$VAL" '. + {chargebackTag: $chargebackTag}' > /var/tmp/update-lic-audit curl -s localhost:8100/cm/device/licensing/audit/$auditid -XPUT -d @/var/tmp/update-lic-audit -o /dev/null offeringid=$(grep $IP /var/tmp/offerings | jq .selfLink -r | egrep -o '/cm/device/.*') curl -s "localhost:8100$offeringid" | jq 'del(.generation,.lastUpdateMicros,.chargebackTag)' | jq --arg chargebackTag "$VAL" '. + {chargebackTag: $chargebackTag}' > /var/tmp/update-offering curl -s "localhost:8100$offeringid" -XPUT -d @/var/tmp/update-offering -o /dev/null done Tested this on version: BIG-IQ 8.3.0
