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- Get current performance and health metrics
- Improve application performance and user experience
- Reduce operational costs
- Plan for future growth
- Get current performance and health metrics
- Improve application performance and user experience
- Reduce operational costs
- Plan for future growth
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A few releases ago we included a couple of new rules and new tasks to go with them. These rules and tasks will help you keep your Pool Members (LTM and GTM) in sync with your applications. These new rules are disabled by default, but we highly recommend enabling and integrating them into your deployment and existing distributed applications. Here is a short tutorial video on how to turn these rules on: Enabling Maintenance Mode For reference, the rules are named F5.Rules.DCO.MaintenanceMod...
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The F5 Management Pack team has just released another version of our core Management Pack, which includes a new iRules feature and a variety of product improvements. Our newest feature allows you to connect your iRules to the F5 Management Pack, and influence object health (e.g. LTM Virtual Server, Pool Members, Nodes, etc.) via events. We’ve also included support for 4 new PowerShell CmdLets allowing you to upload and remove iRules to your F5 BIG-IP device, and register and unregister iRules w...
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Starting with v1.7.0.390 the F5 Management Pack (F5 MP) has some built-in diagnostic capabilities based on iRules. Messages logged within iRules could be sent directly to the F5 Monitoring Service that now has an asynchronous TCP listener specifically designed to receive and process iRule messages, and based on these messages the F5 MP can write events into the Microsoft's System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) event data source, against the F5 device monitoring objects discovered. Putting it ...
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F5 Networks has been releasing versions of our Management Pack to DevCentral monthly for quite awhile, and I’d like to provide a bit more context around our last few releases (1.6.0, 1.6.1, and 1.6.2). If you’re always up to date with the earlier releases, feel free to skip right to the 1.6.2 release at the bottom of this post. Or if you’d like to obtain the latest release, you can jump straight to our F5 Management Pack DevCentral download site. Versioning notes In general, we increment the ...
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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 load ...
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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 the F5 Ma...
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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 wor...
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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 wor...
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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 which t...
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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 load retur...
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