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F5 BIG-IP LTM

The F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) is designed to deliver applications to users, in a reliable, secure, and optimized way. It provides the extensibility and flexibility of application services with the programmability needed to manage a physical, virtual, and cloud infrastructure.

About

The F5 BIG-IP LTM connector uses SNMP to retrieve status, configuration and statistics data from the F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager. It is not possible to configure the device via SNMP.

Version Info

Range Description DCF Integration Cassandra Compliant
1.0.0.x Initial version No Yes

Product Info

Range Device Firmware Version
1.0.0.x Version 12.1.2 Build 0.93.249

Installation and configuration

Creation

SNMP Main Connection

This connector uses a Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) connection and requires the following input during element creation:

SNMP CONNECTION:

  • IP address/host: The polling IP of the device, e.g., 10.11.12.13.

SNMP Settings:

  • Port number: The port of the connected device, by default 161.
  • Get community string: The community string in order to read from the device. The default value is public.
  • Set community string: The community string in order to set to the device. The default value is private.

Usage

General

This page contains the general information about the hardware and software of the device.

There are 2 page buttons available:

  • Global Attributes: Displays general device settings.
  • Global Statistics: Displays general statistics about the CPU usage and incoming and outgoing data.

Interfaces

This page contains 2 tables:

  • Interfaces: Contains interface information and settings.
  • Interface Statistics: Contains the statistics of every interface.

There are also several page buttons available:

  • Extra Statistics: Displays the Interface X Statistics table, with extended interface statistics.
  • VLAN Statistics: Displays the VLAN Statistics table, with statistics grouped per VLAN.
  • SFP Media: Displays the Interface SFP Media table with the SFP type of each interface.

Hardware

The information on this page is similar to that on the General page, but here it is specifically related to the hardware of the device.

There are also several page buttons available:

  • Fan: Displays the Chassis Fans table, showing the speed for each fan in the chassis.
  • Power Supply: Displays the Chassis Power Supplies table, showing the state of each power supply in the chassis.
  • Temperature: Displays the Chassis Temperatures table, showing the temperature of the chassis.
  • Physical Disk: Displays the Hosts Disks table and the Physical Disks table, containing information about the physical and virtual disks in the system.

Redundancy

This page contains status information about the failover configuration of the system.

Cluster

This page contains 3 tables:

  • Clusters: Contains an entry per cluster, with configuration details.
  • Cluster Members: Contains all members of each cluster, with additional information about the state of those members.
  • Chassis Slots: Contains information about the state of each chassis slot.

vCMP

This page contains 3 tables:

  • vCMP Assigned Slots: Lists the slots assigned to a virtual clustered multiprocessing (vCMP) guest.
  • vCMP Allowed Slots: Lists the slots that can be assigned to a vCMP guest.
  • vCMP Statistics: Displays statistics and state information for each vCMP guest.

You can disable the polling of these tables by means of the vCMP Polling toggle button.

LTM

This page contains state and configuration parameters related to the Local Traffic Manager.

There are also 2 page buttons available:

  • Nodes: Displays the Nodes table, with status information about the node addresses.
  • Pools: Displays the LTM Pool Statistics table, the LTM Pool Member States table, the LTM Virtual Server States table and the LTM Pool States table.

You can disable the polling of these tables by means of the LTM Polling toggle button.

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