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?
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
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
BIG3D
We have an LTM running 10.2.3.112 code. We ran the big3d -v command and get the following: root@rndltmcore:Active] config big3d -v big3d version big3d Version 10.2.3.112.0 for linux We attempted discover this LTM with the upgrade box unchecked and it failed. We ran the discovery again with the box checked and it succeeded . The log message indicated that the big3d was upgraded to 1.4. However, when we run the big3d -v command again, we get the following: [root@rndltmcore:Active] config big3d -v big3d version big3d Version 10.2.3.112.0 for linux What is concerning is that SCOM MGMT Pack told us it upgraded the big3d, but the LTM does not reflect that. We also know that when we upgrade the big3d, it will interrupt the communication between GTM's and LTM's, which will affect load balancing for that period. It will also affect communication between Enterprise manager and GTM's and LTM's as they are being discovered. We also know that when we do a code upgrade with a new ISO, it will replace the big3d that was manually upgraded. This could potentially impair SCOM monitoring. Looking for feedback, or comments on this subject.Monitoring BIG-IP on Microsoft’s System Center with the Comtrade Management Pack for F5 BIG-IQ
Comtrade has released a Management Pack (MP) for Microsoft Systems Center (SCOM ) that uses F5’s BIG-IQ to monitor F5 BIG-IP devices and the applications they are helping deliver. The MP allows users to view all BIG-IP objects and see key information about their performance and health. This management pack will be of great interest to all customers using Microsoft Systems Center. What are the requirements for this solution? Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2012 or Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2012 SP1 or Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2012 R2 F5 BIG-IQ 4.3.0 or BIG-IQ 4.4.0 Comtrade F5 BIG-IQ MP requires .NET Framework version 3.5 SP1 installed TCP 443 opened to the BIG-IQ devices Administrator account in BIG-IQ What is available in the MP? Discovery, visualization and dynamic update of F5 BIG-IQ appliances topology Discovery of F5 BIG-IQ appliance objects BIG-IQ Tenants Catalogs – Applications Virtual Servers BIG-IP Devices Cloud Connectors Nodes CPU Memory Disk Partitions SSL Certificates What will the MP Monitor? BIG-IQ (Availability, CPU utilization, Disk partition available space, Disk partition utilization, memory utilization) BIG-IP (Availability, CPU utilization, Disk partition available space, Disk partition utilization, memory utilization) Cloud Connectors (Cloud connector availability) Tenants iApp Catalogs – Applications (Application availability status, application’s active member count) Virtual Servers (Virtual server availability, server-side connection number for virtual server, client-side connection number for virtual server) Nodes (Availability of tenant nodes, server-side number of connections on nodes for port 80, server-side number of connections on nodes for port general, total number of connections on nodes) BIG-IQ SSL certificates (Availability and validity) Statistics BIG-IQ (CPU utilization, memory utilization, disk partition free space and utilization) BIG-IP (CPU utilization, memory utilization, disk partition free space and utilization) Tenants Catalogs – Applications (application availability and active members) Virtual Servers (server-side connection number on virtual servers, client-side connection number on virtual servers) Nodes (server-side connection number on node port 80, server-side connection number on node port general, server-side in-packets on node port general, server-side out-packets on node port general, server-side bits-in on node port general, server-side bits-out on node port general) Views (Diagram, Alert, State and Dashboard) How it works – main steps? 1. Comtrade F5 BIG-IQ is installed on one SCOM Management Server. The installation provides the MP and Comtrade MPBIG-IQ Agent. The agent is used for communicating with the REST API of F5 BIG-IQ. 2. Comtrade MPBIG-IQ Agent is installed on every SCOM Management server that will participate in the BIG-IQ monitoring. SCOM Management Servers are designated trough Resource Pool in SCOM. 3. Create an SNMP based Network device discovery and include the BIG-IQ IP address. Create a new SCOM Resource Pool. Assign the discovery to the Resource Pool. 4. Create Run As account and enter the account with administrator rights for the BIG-IQ device/s. For distribution choose more secure and add the resource pool. 5. Assign the run as account to F5 BIG-IQ Appliance Action Account profile. With these easy steps you are ready for monitoring. Here are some screenshots to give you more detailed view for the solution: Figure 1: Diagram View (Topology) of BIG-IQ infrastructure Figure 2: BIG-IP appliance and its components being monitored Figure 3: Tenants & Applications dashboard view Figure 4: View of all active alerts for BIG-IQ Figure 5: Alert details offers additional information about the issue Figure 6: On demand monitoring – Health recalculation Figure 7: Administration View Here is also a good video that shows the installation and configuration steps as well as overview: Product video: http://www.youtube.com/embed/yAhBk8cSPn0 Product page: www.comtradeproducts.com/f5 Microsoft Blog about the MP for F5: http://www.systemcentercentral.com/sneak-peak-at-comtrade-management-pack-for-f5-big-iq/
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.discovery problem!!!
Hello everybody, the problem is we can't discovery network F5 object by Management Pack of SCOM (System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2). The version of Management Pack is 2.1.5.440. The SCOM environment is installed on Windows Server 2008 v6.0 build 6002 SP2 with DB on SQL Server 2008. The service account with start F5 Service on RMS, is the same of SQL DB F5_ManagementPack (is a user with Global Admin rights). In the customer environment there are two Viprions (in cluster) with two blade per chassis. On the Viprion there is LTM software version 10.0.1 HF4. The problem is: When the Discover Devices Wizard of F5 Management Pack perform discovery appliances on the network, we insert the IP address and the credentials of BIGIP GUI (f.i. admin, admin or an user with Administrator Role) it shown the error in attachment (error event Windows - SCOM). We try the same operation this time with ROOT credentials and the software perform the error in attachment (error event Windows - ROOT). We try also to connect to the Viprion appliances by telnet on port 443 and 4353 (iControl). The firewall doesn't block this port, there is a rule "ad-hoc". We connect correcty with browser to web service of iControl on the appliance ( ) and insert admin credentials. We enter correctly. This test we performed on the machine with RMS installed. Summary: 1) The SCOM environment is integrated with Active Directory, and perform discovery with an user of AD (with Admin right on the local server with SCOM installed); 2) On the Viprion web GUI there is local basic authentication (default) and not AD integrated. Does exist a best practice to configure SCOM discover with a local user of Viprion? Can we configure on Viprion level authentication with AD only for the monitoring? Could you help me, please??? Thanks in advance Fabrizio.
