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- Get current performance and health metrics
- Improve application performance and user experience
- Reduce operational costs
- Plan for future growth
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With the recent release (v1.6.1.212), the F5 Management Pack has an improved responsiveness to device statistics collection. By default, the timer interval for collecting stats is set to 30 seconds, but this value now can be easily overwritten in the (SCOM 2007) F5 Management Pack, as a rule override. The lowest value the timer interval could be set, theoretically, is 3 seconds. There is an internal safeguard in the F5 device (Big-IP) against lowering this threshold and putting unnecessary l...
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Starting with version 1.6.1.212, the F5 Management Pack supports clustered Root Management Server (RMS) configurations with SCOM 2007 (including SCOM 2007 R2), This article will describe the step-by-step procedure of installing and configuring the F5 Management Pack with a SCOM 2007 R2 RMS cluster, running on a Windows Server 2008 R2 platform with Microsoft Cluster Service (MSCS).
For the purpose of this article we'll assume the following system configuration ready, for integrating t...
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Workflows are the fundamental mechanism by which Operations Manager gets things done. Workflows, in essence, are individual pieces of code (modules) that are chained together. For a primer on workflows and modules, I recommend the AuthorMPs site. Workflows remind me of Powershell pipelines or to a lesser extent, linux command piping. Individual commandlets (the equivalent of OpsMgr modules) can be mixed together in different ways to accomplish a more complex task (the equivalent of an OpsMgr...
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During that last year and a half that I’ve been on the F5 Management Pack team, we’ve had to do quite a bit of Systems Center Operations Manager debugging. I think it is certainly possible to develop management packs without needing to delve into Operations Manager internals at all, but much of what our pack does is outside the norm. For example: We have a custom-built agent on the Big-IP LTM box that our management pack talks to using a proprietary protocol We’ve built custom OpsMgr...
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Licensing and registration has been officially added to the process for downloading and activating the F5 Networks Management Pack software package. While we realize the process may create a minor inconvenience for some people, it will go a long way in helping us support you, the loyal customer, in the future. The information we collect through the process will help give us a clearer picture of the Microsoft Systems Center (Operations Manager, Virtual Machine Manager, etc) environment in wh...
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The new PRO-Enabled management pack enables integration with Virtual Machine Manager (VMM) via PRO-Tips. This integration enables scenarios in which statistics and health events collected from Big-IPs by the core management pack are used to trigger actions by VMM.
One example of this kind of scenario is to use VMM to start up virtual machines when a traffic spike starts overwhelming your existing pool of servers. The same virtual machines can be suspended or stopped when the traffic lo...
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I am proud to announce we have just released our latest addition to the F5 Management Pack, the F5 PRO-Enabled Management Pack for Microsoft Virtual Machine Manager 2008 (MS VMM). If you haven’t heard MS VMM is a member of the Microsoft System Center family that enables a host of different technologies and scenarios including Hyper-V management, VMWare instance integration, optimization of virtualized resources (PRO), and monitoring integration with System Center Operations Manager.
Bui...
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For those of you who have every worked with any installer technologies, you probably know how cumbersome it can be to do anything non-conventional. A lot of the higher ticket installer packages like InstallShield or WISE offer a robust set of options, but still lack the granularity that some installations may require, aside from costing money. There are a number of decent free options available such as Nullsoft Scriptable Install System (NCSIS), Inno Setup, and Windows Installer XML (WiX)...
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In this blog post I’ll describe a way to override alert messages (for health state monitors and alerts) using Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) 2007 R2 and the F5 Management Pack. The topic covered in this article is rooted in several requests from the field, where there’s been a need for creating custom alert messages for monitors and alerts related to F5 devices.
I will focus on describing a common use case: monitoring an LTM Pool Member using the LTM Pool Member Aggre...
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To start with, the F5 Networks Management Pack has been able to run from a command prompt since it’s first release. All of the options available through the pretty user interface are actually all available using command line switches/options. There are also a few extra options not available through the standard GUI. I will go a little more in depth with those options, as they will be new to most of you.
First of all, if you open a standard command prompt in Windows, make sure you a...
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