iHealth Upgrade Advisor: Making upgrades a little easier
Whether it is upgrading the firmware on a switch, the OS on a server, an important business application or the software on a BIG-IP, performing upgrades is something that makes almost all IT Admins and Network Engineers nervous. We’ve learned from (sometimes painful) experience that things don’t always go as planned. Good preparation greatly increases the likelihood that an upgrade will be successful, which is why F5 has created the iHealth Upgrade Advisor. Its goal is to provide an additional service from F5 that will complement your existing upgrade preparations, increasing the predictability of the upgrade while reducing your upgrade time. The iHealth Upgrade Advisor service provides a way for users to gain insight into potential issues with a BIG-IP upgrade before they attempt the upgrade. It provides guidance that is specific to a BIG-IP based on its configuration, the version of software it is currently running and the version you are planning to upgrade to. When an issue can be avoided by making a configuration change prior to upgrading, the Upgrade Advisor will tell you exactly what to change. For some issues, it will list the corrective actions to take after the upgrade. Demo Video This short video demonstrating the Upgrade Advisor shows you how to use it and some examples of the guidance it provides. Accessing the Upgrade Advisor The next time you are preparing to upgrade a BIG-IP, login to ihealth.f5.com, upload a .qkview file from that BIG-IP and then view the qkview after iHealth has analyzed it. The Upgrade Advisor can be accessed by clicking on its tab in the left-hand menu. Simply select the version of BIG-IP you are planning to upgrade to in the advisor and review the results. Here is a screenshot of the Upgrade Advisor: Give it a Try Try out the F5 upgrade Advisor today and let us know what you think using the feedback option (circled in red on the right side of the screenshot above).4KViews1like8CommentsEnterprise Manager VS Big IQ
I used to be under the assumption that BigIQ was replacing Enterprise Manager, but I am not sure that is the case. What is the the real differences between the products because they seem to have overlapping feature sets and I am not sure why one customer would pick one appliance over the other. I see that there are different options (or maybe modules) for BigIQ, but I have no idea what its purpose is in relation the EM.1KViews0likes10CommentsHTTP Health Monitor Issue
Hello, I tried creating a Health Monitor to test server-specific content returned from a web server query, but it's currently not working and my servers are in an "Offline (Enabled)" state. From a command line I run the following and getting the following result back, which is working as expected: C:> wget "SERVER:8080/elevationWS/WS/34.9793,-80.9714" SYSTEM_WGETRC = c:/progra~1/wget/etc/wgetrc syswgetrc = C:\Program Files\gnuwin32/etc/wgetrc --2014-03-18 17:06:41-- http://SERVER:8080/elevationWS/WS/34.9793,-80.9714 Resolving SERVER... 172.24.48.9 Connecting to SERVER|172.24.48.9|:8080... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK Length: 166 [application/xml] Saving to: 34.9793,-80.9714' 100%[==============================================================================>] 166 --.-K/s in 0s 2014-03-18 17:06:41 (2.49 MB/s) - 100%[==============================================================================>] 166 --.-K/s in 0s 2014-03-18 17:06:41 (2.49 MB/s) -`34.9793,-80.9714' saved [166/166] Here is my HTTP Health Monitor: Send String: GET \"/elevationWS/WS/34.9793,-80.9714\" HTTP/1.1\r\nHost: \r\nConnection: Close\r\n Receive String: 200 For the Receive String I also tried using a line of data retrieved, which looks like the following, but that didn't work either: 34.9793 Do you guys see any issues with this setup? ThanksSolved592Views0likes14CommentsiHealth API returns 404 for BigIP calls
I can access anything else in the iHealthAPI except for the BigIP information. Every calls returns a 404... Including the same calls they are using in here - I am trying to grab the hostname out of the system information. Also, the hostname does show up in the QKView on iHealth. urls tried: 'https://ihealth-api.f5.com/qkview-analyzer/api/qkviews/{}/bigip' 'https://ihealth-api.f5.com/qkview-analyzer/api/qkviews/{}/bigip/system' 'https://ihealth-api.f5.com/qkview-analyzer/api/qkviews/{}/bigip/serial_numbers/chassis/' 'https://ihealth-api.f5.com/qkview-analyzer/api/qkviews/{}/bigip/serial_numbers/' With the {} replaced with the qkview ID. Can someone else check to see if it works? Thank you!264Views0likes1Commentirule http to https redirect with a little nuance
Hi Everyone, I was hoping for a hand, I'm working on a irule that says: if you reach http://sysdev redirect to https://sysdev.x.com/login.aspx otherwise, if someone has a bookmark to http://sysdev/form1.aspx redirect to https://sysdev.x.com/form1.aspx So this is what I have: when HTTP_REQUEST { if { [HTTP::uri] == "/" } { HTTP::redirect https://sysdev.x.com/login.aspx } else { HTTP::redirect https://sysdev.x.com[HTTP::uri] } } Would this work? I cant find much documentation on 'else' only on 'elseif' - any help would be appreciated.292Views0likes3CommentsUpload QKviews to Internet via PROXY
Hello, I am trying to use the new function in V13 on F5 to upload the qkviews to ihealth. As we use a proxy for internet access I set it up with the: tmsh modify /sys db proxy.host value 10.x.xx.xxx modify /sys db proxy.port value 80 modify /sys db proxy.protocol value http We do not use authentication from this host. So user & password were not set. We tried access with a curl on the CLI to www.google.com and it worked fine. We get the following errors on the GUI qkview: Your device may not have access to the Internet. Verify that you can access api.f5.com and ihealth-api.f5.com and try your upload again. I do not see any traffic on a capture of this. Am i mssing something ? Thx in advance, Luc673Views0likes3CommentsF5 BIG_IP 3900 (C106) - Software Upgrade Advisor not working
Hello, I need to upgrade a 3900(C106) from version 11.5.4 HF2 to 12.1.3.7 I have uploaded the QKView to the iHealth tool to perform a Software Upgrade advisor but it prompts the following message: "You are already running the latest version". The menu to select to version to be upgraded to does not appear I have checked this model can be upgraded to this version in the compatibility matrix, in fact, in the Diagnostics section of the Status at the iHealth the following Upgrade options appear. Upgrade Options: 11.5.4.HF4(hotfix) 11.5.9(stability release) 12.1.3.7(latest release) Any idea why this is happening? Thanks409Views0likes2Commentscannot access ihealth report
Hi, I want to ask regarding report in f5 ihealth site. Last month i can access my report in ihealth site. Right now i cannot access it. It say Request Cannot Be Completed The requested URL was rejected. Incident ID: 6183918755495845809 i have tried to clear cookie, clear cache and reupload the qkview. Is there any solution or workaround so i can access my report?304Views0likes2CommentsiHealth report using case number
Currently we try to to upload iHealth report curl -i --user-agent "F5-EM/3.0" --insecure --cookie path_to_file/LoginCookie.txt --cookie-jar path_to_file/UploadCookie.txt -o - -F qkview=@path_to_file/IHEALTH_REPORT.tar.gz -F 'visible_in_gui=True' -F 'f5_support_case=case_no' https://ihealth-api.f5.com/qkview-analyzer/api/qkviews We have validated all the files are in the corresponding path. But it is not working. Kindly help us. We are currently using V11, V12 and V13 versions, let us know the generic way for all the devices.332Views0likes1Comment