Is it possible to generate alerts if the F5 pools or servers shown in the Network view of an F5 node go up/down? I see there is an F5 property monitor category but it doesn't seem to include any of those options.
I haven't looked in a few months, but there should be an 'availabilitystate' metric in the f5 tables of the database. (f5_pools and f5_virtualservers)
Shouldn't be too hard to get a Custom SQL alert on those.
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There are virtual server and pool status oids in F5-BIGIP-LOCAL-MIB. I have used the netscalar mib to create vip/server pollers and applied those to advance alerts.It is a bit of work but it does the trick.
I'm not sure that this would apply to F5s, but it looks like the same type of solution
try this.
advanced alert manager > custom sql alert > f5 device type (top half is built in, you need to copy/past from the 'join' down)
SELECT F5_Device_V.NodeID AS NetObjectID, F5_Device_V.Caption AS Name
FROM F5_Device_V
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JOIN
F5_Pools ON F5_Pools.NodeID = F5_Device_V.NodeID
WHERE F5_Pools.AvailabilityState = 3
AND F5_Pools.Name like 'App-%'
This will return an alert on the f5 whenever it has a pool with a name starting with 'App-' go into a 'Offline' state (for reference, availabilitystate options in the environment I am looking at are as follows: 1 = up, 3 = offline, 4 = unknown) I would *assume* 2 = down, but I cannot verify that with my current environment. You might play with that to see what you get.
Hope that helps!
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