f5 device loadbalancer monitoring

[grayloglearn]

Hi Team,

Can anybody help with the how to monitor the f5 device loadbalancer along with services and file system.

[kyang]

I haven't done this, but f5 seems to have documentation on doing so with Nagios.

Using SNMP.

http://www.f5.com/pdf/deployment-guides ... ltm-dg.pdf

Have you seen this?

There's also a lot of plugins available on the Nagios Exchange. Take a look there, and see if they meet your requirements.

https://exchange.nagios.org/index.php?o ... rchword=f5

[grayloglearn]

I have seen provided links but i have no luck to catch the required plugin. Is there any another way to monitor the services and file system on f5 loadbalancer.

[mcapra]

Most of the setups I've seen are using check_snmp in conjunction with the F5 provided MIBs/OIDs:
https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K13322

Both of those things require some existing SNMP knowledge to leverage. I would think a good first step would be running a snmpwalk from your Nagios XI machine to the remote load balancer. Then descend into some of the F5 specific trees and see what pops up. Most of the plugins monitoring F5 devices generally (like the ones linked by @kyang) seem to be doing so from branches of the 1.3.6.1.4.1.3375 and 1.3.6.1.4.1.3375.2.1 trees.

[kyang]

Thanks @mcapra!

grayloglearn, let us know if you have any more questions.

[grayloglearn]

Hi Team,

We have thought that we can monitor the f5device load balance services and file utilization via snmp traps. Can anybody help on this. how we can enable the this step by step process.

[kyang]

I think you created another thread that is in regards to this same topic?

Are you okay with continuing over there? On setting up snmp traps for a network device?
https://support.nagios.com/forum/viewto ... 41#p243541

This is to ensure us techs are not answering the same question.

Thank you!

[grayloglearn]

Hi team,

We got some mibs from network team. the below are the mibs.

mibs_netsnmp.tar
mibs_f5.tar

In above two tar which we need to upload.

While we uploading the mibs_f5.tar directly with process trap and click on upload. After this we did not find the any file in processed_mibs folders. The file directly uploaded in below folder.

/usr/share/snmp/mibs/mibs_f5.tar

After this we extracted the mibs_f5.tar we got the total MIB files as below
F5-BIGIP-APM-MIB
F5-BIGIP-COMMON-MIB
F5-BIGIP-GLOBAL-MIB

And even we try to upload the above three files and click on process trap then click on upload. Even-though we are not getting the traps list.

Please tell us which file need to be upload and after upload how to confirm that Is it uploaded

[kyang]

Hello, I would like to mention that your topic here is about F5 device monitoring, but now you are speaking directly on traps?

You had a previous thread that was listed towards SNMP traps.
https://support.nagios.com/forum/viewto ... 41#p243541

Could we continue this in that thread, in case anyone wants to monitor an F5 device they aren't seeing SNMP traps?


Here are my questions to you.

Wait so you first uploaded the MIBs in a tar format into the GUI? (Did it actually process? Or red errors?)

Then you extracted them from /usr/share/snmp/mibs

And then reuploaded those three MIBs back into the GUI? (Did it process?)

Can you run this command and show us the output?

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ls -la /usr/share/snmp/mibs/ | grep F5-BIGIP

Can you post or PM your /etc/snmp/snmptt.conf?