eventSubsription testing

Since you have EVENTTYPE_MODIFY set, you can just change an attribute of an object if you want. Edit a rule by adding a space or flip an attribute on a pool member and you should get a notification sent to you.

 

 

If you have troubles, you can verify your endpoint. In the SDK, there is a EventNotificationClient.pl perl script that you can run on your BIG-IP to test connections to your EventNotification listener.

 

 

Let us know how things go...

 

 

-Joe

Well, I went and started over, and it seems that it tests ok with the EventNotificationClient.pl script in the samples area. But I noticed that when I actually create the subscription with

 

 

sub CreateSubscription {

 

 

my $name = "QA Subscription";

 

 

my @event_list = (

 

"EVENTTYPE_CREATE",

 

"EVENTTYPE_MODIFY",

 

"EVENTTYPE_DELETE",

 

"EVENTTYPE_INTERFACE",

 

"EVENTTYPE_POOL",

 

"EVENTTYPE_POOL_MEMBER",

 

"EVENTTYPE_RULE",

 

"EVENTTYPE_VIRTUAL_SERVER",

 

"EVENTTYPE_NODE_ADDRESS",

 

"EVENTTYPE_SYSTEM_STARTUP",

 

"EVENTTYPE_SYSTEM_SHUTDOWN",

 

"EVENTTYPE_SYSTEM_CONFIG_LOAD"

 

);

 

 

my $url = "http://10.10.1.30:8420";

 

my $url_cred =

 

{

 

auth_mode => "AUTHMODE_BASIC",

 

username => "admin",

 

password => "password"

 

};

 

my $ttl = -1;

 

my $min_event_per = 30;

 

my $max_time = 60;

 

my $enabled_state = "STATE_ENABLED";

 

 

 

my $total_detail =

 

{

 

name => $name,

 

event_type_list => [@event_list],

 

url => $url,

 

url_credentials => $url_cred,

 

ttl => $ttl,

 

min_events_per_timeslice => $min_event_per,

 

max_timeslice => $max_time,

 

enabled_state => $enabled_sate

 

};

 

 

 

 

my $soapResponse = $EventSub->create

 

(

 

SOAP::Data->name(sub_detail_list => [$total_detail])

 

);

 

 

if ($soapResponse->fault) {

 

print $soapResponse->faultcode," ",$soapResponse->faultstring,"\n";

 

exit();

 

}

 

else {

 

my @subStatus = @{$soapResponse->result};

 

 

foreach $stat (@subStatus) {

 

$code = $stat->{"code"};

 

$data = $stat->{"data"};

 

 

print "code: $code\n";

 

print "data: $data\n";

 

print "\n";

 

}

 

}

 

}

 

 

 

 

 

That it comes up as STATE_DISABLED, which seems to be the issue:

 

 

Getting subscription info

 

Details for subscription ID: 4936492D-1974-6E33-E4DC-52423273FE3

 

 

Name: QA Subscription

 

URL: http://10.10.1.30:8420

 

Enabled State: STATE_DISABLED

 

ID: 4936492D-1974-6E33-E4DC-52423273FE3

 

 

----EVENTS----

 

 

EVENTTYPE_INTERFACE

 

EVENTTYPE_NODE_ADDRESS

 

EVENTTYPE_VIRTUAL_SERVER

 

EVENTTYPE_POOL_MEMBER

 

EVENTTYPE_POOL

 

EVENTTYPE_RULE

 

EVENTTYPE_DELETE

 

EVENTTYPE_CREATE

 

EVENTTYPE_MODIFY

 

EVENTTYPE_SYSTEM_STARTUP

 

EVENTTYPE_SYSTEM_SHUTDOWN

 

EVENTTYPE_SYSTEM_CONFIG_LOAD

 

 

 

Not sure why that is so I'm still investigating.

 

 

-jaskel

I did create this subscription on the passive node in an HA pair? Would that maybe keep it in STATE_DISABLED instead of STATE_ENABLED, or does it not even care about that?

 

 

-James

Most likely is that its a communication error to your client. For help in debugging, you can run the server side eventd process in debug mode to list out the diagnostics. Ssh into your BIG-IP and issue the following statements:

$ bigstart shutdown eventd 
 $ /usr/sbin/eventd -d -f -o

Then try to create your subscription. At that point you should see something on the console that indicates why it is disabling the subscription.

-Joe

Oh, and make sure to kill that process and issue another "bigstart start eventd" after you are finished B-).

 

 

-Joe

Ok, so...did that and this is what I got from the output:

 

 

012d0001:6: eventd version 9.0.0.337.17 started

 

Configuration::load()

 

Entering Notification Thread...

 

processSOAPMessage()

 

ns: urn:iControl:Management/EventSubscription

 

name: create

 

Creating Consumer 49950D7C-1974-D8F6-EA11-87A2852662F

 

Saving Consumer list

 

start_transaction {

 

}

 

Received TRANSACTION!

 

modify {

 

db_variable {

 

db_variable_name "configsync.peerconfigtimeraw"

 

db_variable_transaction_id 44504

 

}

 

}

 

end_transaction {

 

}

 

start_transaction {

 

}

 

Received TRANSACTION!

 

modify {

 

db_variable {

 

db_variable_name "configsync.peerupdatedstatus"

 

db_variable_transaction_id 44505

 

}

 

}

 

end_transaction {

 

}

 

start_transaction {

 

}

 

Received TRANSACTION!

 

modify {

 

db_variable {

 

db_variable_name "configsync.peerconfigtimeraw"

 

db_variable_transaction_id 44506

 

}

 

}

 

end_transaction {

 

}

 

start_transaction {

 

}

 

Received TRANSACTION!

 

modify {

 

db_variable {

 

db_variable_name "configsync.peerupdatedstatus"

 

db_variable_value "1"

 

db_variable_transaction_id 44507

 

}

 

}

 

end_transaction {

 

}

 

start_transaction {

 

}

 

Received TRANSACTION!

 

modify {

 

db_variable {

 

db_variable_name "configsync.peerupdatedstatus"

 

db_variable_value "0"

 

db_variable_transaction_id 44508

 

}

 

}

 

end_transaction {

 

}

 

processSOAPMessage()

 

ns: urn:iControl:Management/EventSubscription

 

name: get_list

 

processSOAPMessage()

 

ns: urn:iControl:Management/EventSubscription

 

name: query

 

start_transaction {

 

}

 

Received TRANSACTION!

 

modify {

 

db_variable {

 

db_variable_name "configsync.peerconfigtimeraw"

 

db_variable_transaction_id 44509

 

}

 

}

 

end_transaction {

 

}

 

start_transaction {

 

}

 

Received TRANSACTION!

 

modify {

 

db_variable {

 

db_variable_name "configsync.peerupdatedstatus"

 

db_variable_transaction_id 44510

 

}

 

}

 

end_transaction {

 

}

 

start_transaction {

 

}

 

Received TRANSACTION!

 

modify {

 

db_variable {

 

db_variable_name "configsync.peerconfigtimeraw"

 

db_variable_transaction_id 44511

 

}

 

}

 

end_transaction {

 

}

 

start_transaction {

 

}

 

Received TRANSACTION!

 

modify {

 

db_variable {

 

db_variable_name "configsync.peerupdatedstatus"

 

db_variable_value "1"

 

db_variable_transaction_id 44512

 

}

 

}

 

end_transaction {

 

}

 

start_transaction {

 

}

 

Received TRANSACTION!

 

modify {

 

db_variable {

 

db_variable_name "configsync.peerupdatedstatus"

 

db_variable_value "0"

 

db_variable_transaction_id 44513

 

}

 

}

 

end_transaction {

 

}

 

start_transaction {

 

}

 

Received TRANSACTION!

 

modify {

 

db_variable {

 

db_variable_name "configsync.peerconfigtimeraw"

 

db_variable_transaction_id 44514

 

}

 

}

 

end_transaction {

 

}

 

start_transaction {

 

}

 

Received TRANSACTION!

 

modify {

 

db_variable {

 

db_variable_name "configsync.peerupdatedstatus"

 

db_variable_transaction_id 44515

 

}

 

}

 

end_transaction {

 

}

 

start_transaction {

 

}

 

Received TRANSACTION!

 

modify {

 

db_variable {

 

db_variable_name "configsync.peerconfigtimeraw"

 

db_variable_transaction_id 44516

 

}

 

}

 

end_transaction {

 

}

 

start_transaction {

 

}

 

Received TRANSACTION!

 

modify {

 

db_variable {

 

db_variable_name "configsync.peerupdatedstatus"

 

db_variable_value "1"

 

db_variable_transaction_id 44517

 

}

 

}

 

end_transaction {

 

}

 

start_transaction {

 

}

 

Received TRANSACTION!

 

modify {

 

db_variable {

 

db_variable_name "configsync.peerupdatedstatus"

 

db_variable_value "0"

 

db_variable_transaction_id 44518

 

}

 

}

 

end_transaction {

 

}

 

 

 

 

Still came up in STATE_DISABLED though.

 

 

-jaskel

Looks like a typo in the create code:

 

 

my $total_detail = 
 { 
   name => $name, 
   event_type_list => [@event_list], 
   url => $url, 
   url_credentials => $url_cred, 
   ttl => $ttl, 
   min_events_per_timeslice => $min_event_per, 
   max_timeslice => $max_time, 
   enabled_state => $enabled_sate 
 }; 

 

 

$enabled_sate is undefined and thus defaults to 0. The server will interpret this as the enum value 0 which equates to STATE_DISABLED. Change that to $enabled_state and that should get you going.

 

 

Hope this helps...

 

 

-Joe

Wow....nothing like a typo to make me feel like a total tool....

 

 

 

Getting subscription info

 

Details for subscription ID: 4ABD1B7F-1974-A46B-5E59-CB4CEBCA430

 

 

Name: QA Subscription

 

URL: http://10.10.1.30:8420

 

Enabled State: STATE_ENABLED

 

ID: 4ABD1B7F-1974-A46B-5E59-CB4CEBCA430

 

 

----EVENTS----

 

 

EVENTTYPE_INTERFACE

 

EVENTTYPE_NODE_ADDRESS

 

EVENTTYPE_VIRTUAL_SERVER

 

EVENTTYPE_POOL_MEMBER

 

EVENTTYPE_POOL

 

EVENTTYPE_RULE

 

EVENTTYPE_DELETE

 

EVENTTYPE_CREATE

 

EVENTTYPE_MODIFY

 

EVENTTYPE_SYSTEM_STARTUP

 

EVENTTYPE_SYSTEM_SHUTDOWN

 

EVENTTYPE_SYSTEM_CONFIG_LOAD

 

 

 

 

Thanks for all the tips and help!

 

 

-jaskel