Monitoring Pool Member Status and Emailing Alerts...

 

We recently purchased 4 new Bigip's. We will be migrating all our services over to these eventually. Currently on our 4.5.x bigips we use ISM to monitor the status of pool members and send out email alerts when they are detected down and when they come back up.

 

 

ISM is now EOL and doesn't support the 9.x bigips. We have Enterprise Manager and was under the impression it could do the same type of monitoring and email alerts. Playing around with it, I don't see anything obvious that would accomplish this. It seems mainly for deploying updates patches and config changes.

 

 

My question is can I do this with EM and icontrol rules to check the status of pool members and send email alerts when node service goes down, and the like.

 

I know from reading you can acheive the same using the syslog and SNMP monitors filters and stuff like that, but I would rather not use this method but rather do it like we used to do it using ISMan.

 

 

Thanks for any input and suggestions.

 

 

David