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F5-User_203510
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Jun 04, 2015

How to check Health Status of BIG-IP LTM

We are using BIG-IP LTM in our production environment. I am asked to submit "health check report" of the device on weekly basis. I am a bit confused in "Monitors , QKview, and Statistics"

 

What should I use to check the health of the device. What is the recommended and best way to report about health status?

 

Keeping in mind, the devices are in production so we cannot afford any downtime.

 

Any help will be appreciated. Thanks.

 

application delivery
cisco
health checks
LTM
management
performance

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  • amolari's avatar
    amolari
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    Jun 04, 2015

    do you have a snmp monitoring solution in place? If so I would configure it to get

     

    • hardware status (fan, cpu, mem, disk usage)
    • network status (interface drops, errors, bytes in/out..)
    • services status (num. of connections/requests history, ssl transactions,...)

    If you need help to set that up, have a look at the "TMOS Operation guide" (on ask.f5.com)

     

  • F5-User_203510's avatar
    F5-User_203510
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    Jun 05, 2015

    Thank you amolari,

     

    Do you think I should use QkVIEW to check the status of the device. I have read that if we create QKVIEW and import it on iHEALTH then it can give lot of information ?

     

  • MOHIT_125417's avatar
    MOHIT_125417
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    Jun 08, 2015

    Yes QKView will provide you tons of Information about the health of the Box.