On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 6:56 AM, Bill Richardson <user-47ee0335f310@xymon.invalid> wrote:
I sent this to the devmon mailing list and thought it might be worth
trying the hobbit list to see if anyone was using Hobbit and or Devmon
to monitor F5's.
Any thoughts/help?
I'm not using devmon, but I am using Hobbit to watch some BigIPs.
I was asked to set up some BigIP pool monitoring, but "they" won't let
SNMP work properly (snmpwalk times out) so I had to come up with an
alternative. What I ended doing was to modifiy some of the SOAP-Lite
Perl scripts from the F5 iControl SDK. I have both v4 and v9 scripts
that will read the list of pools, then get the Enabled/Disabled status
of each port for each pool member to report to Hobbit. I also had it
reporting the Up/Down state, but was told "we've got other ways of
figuring that out" so I commented out that bit.
And then I started seeing purple dots and I realised that "they" were
updating the BigIP configs at random times, so I set up another script
to read the pool lists and create bb-hosts include files...
At least one of the BigIPs has a 98 member pool and a 150 member pool.
Seems to be reporting OK.
Ralph Mitchell