BigIP

=BigIP=

BigIp is now a generic name for F5 hardware that can be used for LTM (Local Traffic Management)and GTM (Global Traffic Management), These were originally know as BigIP and 3DNS respectively.

More Info will come on this later... in the mean time try or there development development wiki

Some quick hints
just a collection of useful commands for F5 kit.

Quick and dirty cheet sheet for big ip's

Serial Access
/etc/boot.default should have the following line set: -console com, for vga it would be -console -auto The serial port is a 9 pin connection - newer bigips run at 19,200 older at 9600

Show the active / failover state
The failover state is STANDBY.1
 * 1) b fo

Read the log

 * 1) tail /var/log/ltm

Show running config

 * 1) b list | less

Save the running config

 * 1) b list > bigip.config..

Sync the configs
v4-)
 * 1) b config sync

v9-)
 * 1) b config sync all

List nodes

 * 1) b list | grep -i node

Disable nodes
v9


 * 1) b node session disable

v4


 * 1) b node disable

you can check if a node is disabled by doing a 'b node  show', or it will be noted at the bottom of the config

Enable nodes
v9


 * 1) b node session enable

v4


 * 1) b node enable

Check the state of a node

 * 1) b node show

Check the status of all nodes

 * 1) b node show

Check the status of all pools

 * 1) b pool show

Check the status of a pool

 * 1) b pool show

Check the status of a pool member

 * 1) b pool show | grep :

show status of all monitor's
V9

b monitor all instance all show

v4

b node monitor show

show status of specific monitor's
v9 b monitor instance  show

v4 b node : monitor show

Check interfaces

 * 1) b interface show

interface  speed   pkts   pkts   pkts   pkts   bits   bits errors trunk Mb/s    in    out   drop   coll     in    out mgmt UP  100 FD 46.74M 4.432M      0      0 17.17G 7.345G    234 1.1 UP  100 FD 1.483G 1.621G     37      0 1.078T 5.531T      0 1.2 UP  100 FD 557.9M 374.7M     15      0 4.973T 435.5G      0 1.3 DN 1000 FD      0      0      0      0      0      0      0 1.4 DN 1000 FD      0      0      0      0      0      0      0

CPU / Memory / Traffic stats
Use tmstats to show general system utilisation


 * 1) //usr/bin/tmstat

Private UCS
To create a UCS archive that does not contain SSL private keys, use the following command syntax: Useful if your sending in a UCS to support and dont want to send in you SSL key/cert.

b config support save