iHealth now has an API!
Did you ever wish that you had the collective knowlege of the might legions of the F5 Support organization at your beck and call? Maybe you lay in bed dreaming of releasing an army of F5 engineers to scour over your BIG-IPs, looking for potential issues, misconfigurations, and aligning your configurations with known best practices. Taking it even further (we're dreaming, right?) you envisioned a magical robot that would constantly keep watch over your BIG-IPs, checking them for issues, and alerting you when it found something, all without you needing to think about it. On the other hand, maybe you never even thought it was possible and had given up on the dream long ago. F5 has offered the free, web-based iHealth tool (ihealth.f5.com) for years, but perhaps the thought of manually uploading your QKViews, and manually clicking through screens once a week made you throw up your hands, because seriously F5, who has time for that, even with the ability to drag and drop multiple QKViews into the upload page?! Well, we heard rumors of these (not so) secret yearnings for automation, and we're happy to say that we've released an iHealth API to give you the tools you'll need to build your magical automated, proactive BIG-IP monitoring robot. The iHealth REST API provides all kinds of services. Maybe you want to submit a QKView to iHealth to run diagnostics on it. Easy. Oh, actually you want to associate that QKView with an open F5 support case? Easy. You'd like to be able to see that QKView in the iHealth web UI as well? Done. Want to grab the diagnostics output, and run it through your own archiving and reporting system? Easily done. JSON? XML? PDF? Of course! Now that that QKView is in iHealth, do you wish you could get tmsh command output from the moment in time that QKView was taken? Easy. Need a log file from that snapshot to check something? Easy. Your magical robot has the ability (once you teach her the API methods) to manage your QKView collections, retrieve all kinds of things from the QKView itself, get diagnostics output, and much more. UPDATE: QKView Diagnostics documentation can be found here. We encourage you to explore the API methods, and start building your dream robot so that you can spend time on interesting problems, instead of hovering over a web UI, clicking buttons. Get the goods at the iHealth API page.
Upload QKviews to Internet via PROXY
Hello, I am trying to use the new function in V13 on F5 to upload the qkviews to ihealth. As we use a proxy for internet access I set it up with the: tmsh modify /sys db proxy.host value 10.x.xx.xxx modify /sys db proxy.port value 80 modify /sys db proxy.protocol value http We do not use authentication from this host. So user & password were not set. We tried access with a curl on the CLI to www.google.com and it worked fine. We get the following errors on the GUI qkview: Your device may not have access to the Internet. Verify that you can access api.f5.com and ihealth-api.f5.com and try your upload again. I do not see any traffic on a capture of this. Am i mssing something ? Thx in advance, Luc
Bug Tracker output from iHealth API?
Hello. When accessing iHealth, there is a Bug Tracker section where defects associated with your release can be viewed. I've reviewed the iHealth API Wiki and see that diagnostic details can be retrieved but no reference to the Bug Tracker details. Is this information available via API?
