F5 BIGIP Management Pack for SCOM 2012 R2 ( free, source open )
Problem this snippet solves: Hi, I authored a small Management Pack to monitor some key components for F5 BIGIP devices. It works with SCOM 2012 R2 and will work with 2016. Under the hood REST (authentication taught by @Joel Newton) and SNMP is used. Diagram: State: Alert: Links: Management Pack Details Management Pack Setup Management Pack Management Pack VSAE 2015 Solution Feel free to contact me :-) Kind regards Ruben Code : https://github.com/Juanito99/F5_BIGIP_OpsMgr
New F5 Monitoring Pack for Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (SCOM)
Comtrade now offers two flavors of monitoring packs integrating F5 into Systems Center. Last October, Comtrade introduced a Monitoring Pack that took advantage of F5’s BIG-IQ to display BIG-IPs, monitor device and application health and more - all in Microsoft System Center Operations Manager. Now, Comtrade has expanded their offering with a Management Pack that works directly with BIG-IPs - and does not require BIG-IQ. Why is this needed? Well simply, most customer don't yet have BIG-IQ. And while we would like to change that, the new MP dramatically increases the immediately addressable market - and makes integration of BIG-IPs into SCOM simple and straight forward. If you have BIG-IPs and use SCOM, try out the monitoring pack. It’s worth having. The Comtrade Management Pack for F5 BIG-IP enables IT teams to monitor F5 devices with Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (SCOM). With Management Pack customers will will be able to: See all virtual servers, organized by application service or by device, without leaving SCOM Easily monitor multiple BIG-IP devices from one pane of glass Address issues early and maximize availability of configured application service and virtual server by providing expected QoS level Act as soon as the issue is detected and make sure application services are operating with expected QoS level and diminish danger of device becoming unavailable due to reboot or due to disk being full Monitor SSL Certificate status Find all applications configured on a specific BIG-IP device Monitor load on virtual servers, find the least and the most used virtual server configured on specific device and optimize device configuration to provide expected quality of service View application availability to service user requests and identify root cause for either poor performance or unavailability Protect configured application services and make sure no single point of failure exists in HA setup and HA setup is working as expected A free trial is available here.
The requested pool member xxxxx was not found.
Problem description: We recently upgraded our F5 and then discovered an LTM HA pair of F5's with the SCOM F5 MP. The discovery was successful and everything "appears" to be working with the exception of a bunch of re-occuring error 01020036 messages. The message indicates that a pool member was not found however the pool member is present and working just fine. Version Information: F5 Version 10.1.0 Build 3372.0 F5 MP Version 1.7.0 Errors seen in logs Thu Jun 10 08:25:23 CDT 2010 err local/okcbigip1 mcpd[3228] 01020036 The requested pool member (CEMIOpsProd_HTTP_Pool 172.18.9.8 32004) was not found. Thu Jun 10 08:25:26 CDT 2010 err local/okcbigip1 mcpd[3228] 01020036 The requested pool member (AlarmPoint_8888_Pool 172.18.7.13 27808) was not found. Thu Jun 10 08:25:32 CDT 2010 err local/okcbigip1 mcpd[3228] 01020036 The requested pool member (AllPort_Pool_VAppCtx 172.18.10.47 28204) was not found. Any ideas what is wrong and how to resolve?
Displaying Real-time statistics for a pool or virtual server
Hi: Can somebody post the command for displaying Real-time statistics for a pool or virtual server? I understand bigtop can do it but can it continuously display the real time statistics for a specific pool or virtual server? I need to monitor specific pool and virtual server and want to see the real-time statistics for those through command line. Thanks in advance, Ijaz
The F5 Monitoring Service Data Source Singleton Error
Hi All, Recently installed the F5 Management Pack as per the WIKI guide (RMS first then the Management Server to be used for F5 discovery/monitoring). Today we attempted our first discovery of an F5 device and as we wanted to confirm whether or not the big3d agent might be upgraded and possibly cause some impact we chose to discover the standby node of our F5 load balancers. One of the F5 Administrators used his account named account which is a member of the Administrator role on the F5 appliances to perform the discovery task on the management server. The discovery completed successfully and eventually the device appeared in the appropriate F5 Management Pack state view with a green tick. I then noticed, however, an alert in the SCOM Console's Active Alerts view relating to the F5 Management Pack Monitoring Service on the designated Management Server that the discovery was performed on. If I expand the Health Explorer for the F5 Monitoring Service on this Management Server I can see the following roll-ups are Critical: +Entity Health +Availability +Data Layer +Operations Manager Connections: - F5.MonitoringService (F5 management Pack Monitoring Service) +Data Source Server - F5.MonitoringService (F5 Management Pack Monitoring Service) +Operations Manager Connector - F5.MonitoringService (F5 Management Pack Monitoring Service) Clicking on the bottom two unit monitors to see what Knowledge text they have shows nothing and the State Change history tab is as follows: +Data Source Server - F5.MonitoringService (F5 Management Pack Monitoring Service) Description: The PerformanceDataSourceConnector connection to Operations Manager Health Service host localhost was lost: Failed to connect to an IPC Port: The system cannot find the file specified. +Operations Manager Connector - F5.MonitoringService (F5 Management Pack Monitoring Service) Description: The PerformanceDataSourceConnector connection to Operations Manager Health Service host localhost was lost: Failed to connect to an IPC Port: The system cannot find the file specified. In the Active Alerts view there is also the error named, "F5 Monitoring Service data Source Singleton error" and the Path of this error is the Management Server from which the discovery task was run. The Description text for this error states: "The F5 Monitoring Service data source been loaded multiple times. " The Knowledge text state: Summary The F5 Monitoring Service data source been loaded multiple times. Configuration Configuration of threshold and performance data rule overrides is part of Operations Manager override interface. Causes This most frequently occurs when rule overrides for thresholds or performance data collection are targeting incorrect objects. Resolutions Please attempt to fix or reset your rule overrides for thresholds and performance rules. Additional Information For additional information about the F5 Management Pack rule overrides, refer to the Management Pack Rule Override Wiki at: http://devcentral.f5.com/wiki/default.aspx/MgmtPack/PerformanceCollectionAndMonitoring.html External Knowledge Sources External knowledge sources. http://devcentral.f5.com/mpack At this stage no additional configuration has been done to any rules or collectors for performance or availability monitoring. The only thing that has ben done is to discover the device and let whatever default object discovery tasks are enabled to run to see what gets populated. Our plan is to turn-on any desired performance and object discoveries as required once we get the Active node into the configuration. However, before we get to that I would like to understand and fix this f5 Monitoring Service data Source Singleton error. So, if anyone can explain the meaning of this error and how it can be resolved I would bemost grateful. Is the error just the F5 Management Pack's way of saying we need to configure overrides if we expect to get any meaningful monitoring of the devices? Do I simply need to restart the F5 Monitoring Service on the Management Server resolve this? Thanking you for your considered reply, flipa
F5 Event 806
F5 MP 2.1.0.43 LTM 9.3.1 Every minute get this for cpu_info: (Data)Unable to process device [F5 Device [xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx]] statistics due to data failure: Could not look up entity info based on statistic: IP=xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx Statistic=(stats)(time)1274286864(/time)(type)cpu_info(/type)(name)0(/name)(slot_id)0(/slot_id)(cpu_usage_ratio)100(/cpu_usage_ratio)(user)296431053(/user)(niced)5535(/niced)(system)157421470(/system)(idle)201098(/idle)(irq)1677(/irq)(softirq)109818(/softirq)(iowait)1619316(/iowait)(tm_user_cycles)289280938(/tm_user_cycles)(tm_system_cycles)153726349(/tm_system_cycles)(/stats)(/Data) Thanks, Brian
SCOM F5 Objects Not Consistent with Objects on F5
We have been working with the F5 management pack for a while in our DEV environment and have just set it up in QA. In both environments, we have noticed that the objects that are discovered in SCOM are not always consistent with the objects that have been added to the F5. For instance, there are Virtual Servers and pools that are on the F5 and are taking traffic that aren't discovered in SCOM. Other Virtual Servers are discovered but their status is forever "Unmonitored". We have also found pools in SCOM that contain old pool members that use to be in pool on the F5 but aren't any more. We are using management pack 1.5.1.287. We want to get this fixed. It is not acceptable for us to put this management pack into our production environment if it is going to produce unreliable results. Please get back to us a your earliest convienence.
F5 Monitoring Agent Issues
I cannot get the Monitoring agent to run correctly I am using SCOM 2007 R2, on Windows 2008, with a SQL 2008 server. The install failed with similar issues <04-01-2010 11:19:18> FatalError: The F5 Monitoring Service did not start within the timeout period. <04-01-2010 11:19:18> FatalError: There was a problem attempting to make calls into the F5 Monitoring Service. Check the Windows Event Log and trace logs for the reason and try starting the service again manually. F5Networks.F5Exception: Unable to connect to data source: The PerformanceDataSourceConnector connection to Operations Manager Health Service host HPVCPSCOM01 could not be established: Failed to connect to an IPC Port: The system cannot find the file specified. : HPVCPSCOM01 ---> F5Networks.ManagementPack.DataAccess.ManagedConnections.ConnectionFailedException: The PerformanceDataSourceConnector connection to Operations Manager Health Service host HPVCPSCOM01 could not be established: Failed to connect to an IPC Port: The system cannot find the file specified. More info, I get errors in the F5 Management Event Log about - Requested registry access is not allowed. All the accounts have the admin access they need. The database is created in SQL, the account the F5 agent is running under is an admin for SCOM, SQL and the machine. Any ideas?Service Account Not recognised During MP Instal
Hi All, I have tried to install the F5 Management Pack to the RMS server following the instructions on this site but at the point in the installer wizard where I am prompted to supply the Service Account credentials for the account that will run the f5 Monitoring service an error message appears with the following message: "Application attempted to perform an operation not allowed by the security policy. To grant this application the required permission, contact your system administrator, or use the Microsoft .NET Framework Configuration tool. If you click Continue, the application will ignore this error and attempt to continuee. Logon failure: unknown user name or bad password" The Details of the error message then go on to list the following messages: "************** Exception Text ************** System.Security.SecurityException: Logon failure: unknown user name or bad password. at System.Security.Principal.WindowsIdentity.KerbS4ULogon(String upn) at System.Security.Principal.WindowsIdentity..ctor(String sUserPrincipalName, String type) at System.Security.Principal.WindowsIdentity..ctor(String sUserPrincipalName) at F5Networks.ManagementPack.Setup.SetupUI._AuthenticateServiceAccount() at F5Networks.ManagementPack.Setup.SetupUI.Next() at System.Windows.Forms.Control.OnClick(EventArgs e) at System.Windows.Forms.Button.OnMouseUp(MouseEventArgs mevent) at System.Windows.Forms.Control.WmMouseUp(Message& m, MouseButtons button, Int32 clicks) at System.Windows.Forms.Control.WndProc(Message& m) at System.Windows.Forms.ButtonBase.WndProc(Message& m) at System.Windows.Forms.Button.WndProc(Message& m) at System.Windows.Forms.Control.ControlNativeWindow.WndProc(Message& m) at System.Windows.Forms.NativeWindow.Callback(IntPtr hWnd, Int32 msg, IntPtr wparam, IntPtr lparam) The Zone of the assembly that failed was: MyComputer" This is followed by more output listing the Loaded Assemblies at the time of the error. This error occurs regardless of whether I use the specially created F5 Service Account or the SCOM Admin account. I am also confused as to why the above output should indicate "MyComputer" as a zone whatever that means. By way of context I should mention that the F5 Service Account has been added to a SCOM Admins global security group and I have also explicitly added it to the Local Admins on the SCOM database server. The account that I use when running the F5 MP Installer is the SCOM Admin account which is an admin of the RMS and of the SCOM application itself so the permissions should be there to complete the task even if I had to resort to using the SCOM Admin account as the F5 Service Account out of desperation to get through the installer. If anyone has seen a similar error and found the resolution or can decipher what this error means and what exactly I need to do in the .NET Framework Configuration tool to allow the service account to be recognised I would be grateful. Thanking you for your considered rely, flipa.
