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Nov 29, 2013

F5 Big IP 6900 10.2.4 alert level for logging for connections

Hello , ON F5 6900 we are trying to find option to increase the alert level of logging so that we are able to see communication that goes through the F5 load balancer Can you please advise how can we do that thanks for help

 

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  • Can you be more specific about 'communication that goes through...' please? If you want a packet by packet view or to see within each packet I'd suggest tcpdump but if you just want to log each new connection and the source and destination IP (for instance) an iRule might suit better.

     

    Note that there is no option to do directly this via the logging settings as far as I know.

     

  • hello , In logs I was thinking if we could move the option for http or layer 4 to debug will that help . Requirement is to monitor the traffic in case there is any drops .

     

  • I wouldn't ever select debug on a production system, you'd no doubt cause a failure in short order. Such options would log far more that just drops. I would have throught using SNMP or sFlow would have been far more appropriate if your looking to log network packet drops and the like.

     

  • hello , if anyone can suggest me how irule can help in this will , so logs will be created when the traiic is dropped ? thanks for help