Manual :
External Monitoring of BIG-IP Systems: Implementations
Applies To:
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BIG-IP AAM
- 11.6.5, 11.6.4, 11.6.3, 11.6.2, 11.6.1
BIG-IP APM
- 11.6.5, 11.6.4, 11.6.3, 11.6.2, 11.6.1
BIG-IP GTM
- 11.6.5, 11.6.4, 11.6.3, 11.6.2, 11.6.1
BIG-IP Analytics
- 11.6.5, 11.6.4, 11.6.3, 11.6.2, 11.6.1
BIG-IP Link Controller
- 11.6.5, 11.6.4, 11.6.3, 11.6.2, 11.6.1
BIG-IP LTM
- 11.6.5, 11.6.4, 11.6.3, 11.6.2, 11.6.1
BIG-IP PEM
- 11.6.5, 11.6.4, 11.6.3, 11.6.2, 11.6.1
BIG-IP AFM
- 11.6.5, 11.6.4, 11.6.3, 11.6.2, 11.6.1
BIG-IP ASM
- 11.6.5, 11.6.4, 11.6.3, 11.6.2, 11.6.1
Original Publication Date: 08/25/2014
- Legal Notices and Acknowledgments
- Configuring Request Logging
- Configuring Remote High-Speed Logging of BIG-IP System Processes
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Configuring Remote High-Speed DNS Logging
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Overview: Configuring remote high-speed DNS logging
- Creating a pool of remote logging servers
- Creating a remote high-speed log destination
- Creating a formatted remote high-speed log destination
- Creating a publisher
- Creating a custom DNS logging profile for logging DNS queries
- Creating a custom DNS logging profile for logging DNS responses
- Creating a custom DNS logging profile for logging DNS queries and responses
- Creating a custom DNS profile to enable DNS logging
- Configuring a listener for DNS logging
- Configuring an LTM virtual server for DNS logging
- Disabling DNS logging
- Implementation result
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Overview: Configuring remote high-speed DNS logging
- Configuring Remote High-Speed Logging of Protocol Security Events
- Configuring Remote High-Speed Logging of Network Firewall Events
- Configuring Remote High-Speed Logging of DoS Protection Events
- Configuring Remote High-Speed Logging of CGNAT Processes
- Configuring CGNAT IPFIX Logging
- Logging Network Firewall Events to IPFIX Collectors
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Customizing IPFIX Logging with iRules
- Overview: Customizing IPFIX logging with iRules
- Implementation result
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Monitoring BIG-IP System Traffic with SNMP
- Overview: Configuring network monitoring using SNMP
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About enterprise MIB files
- Downloading enterprise and NET-SNMP MIBs to the SNMP manager
- Viewing objects in enterprise MIB files
- Viewing SNMP traps in F5-BIGIP-COMMON-MIB.txt
- Viewing dynamic routing SNMP traps and associated OIDs
- Monitoring BIG-IP system processes using SNMP
- Collecting BIG-IP system memory usage data using SNMP
- Collecting BIG-IP system data on HTTP requests using SNMP
- Collecting BIG-IP system data on throughput rates using SNMP
- Collecting BIG-IP system data on RAM cache using SNMP
- Collecting BIG-IP system data on SSL transactions using SNMP
- Collecting BIG-IP system data on CPU usage based on a predefined polling interval
- Collecting BIG-IP system data on CPU usage based on a custom polling interval
- Collecting BIG-IP system performance data on new connections using SNMP
- Collecting BIG-IP system performance data on active connections using SNMP
- About the RMON MIB file
- About customized MIB entries
- Overview: BIG-IP SNMP agent configuration
- Overview: SNMP trap configuration
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Overview: About troubleshooting SNMP traps
- AFM-related traps and recommended actions
- ASM-related traps and recommended actions
- Application Visibility and Reporting-related traps and recommended actions
- Authentication-related traps and recommended actions
- DoS-related traps and recommended actions
- General traps and recommended actions
- GTM-related traps and recommended actions
- Hardware-related traps and recommended actions
- High-availability system-related traps and recommended actions
- License-related traps and recommended actions
- LTM-related traps and recommended actions
- Logging-related traps and recommended actions
- Network-related traps and recommended actions
- vCMP-related traps and recommended actions
- VIPRION-related traps and recommended actions
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Monitoring BIG-IP System Traffic with sFlow
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Overview: Configuring network monitoring with sFlow
- Adding a performance monitoring sFlow receiver
- Setting global sFlow polling intervals and sampling rates for data sources
- Setting the sFlow polling interval and sampling rate for a VLAN
- Setting the sFlow polling interval and sampling rate for a profile
- Setting the sFlow polling interval for an interface
- Viewing sFlow data sources, polling intervals, and sampling rates
- sFlow receiver settings
- sFlow global settings
- sFlow counters and data
- sFlow HTTP Request sampling data types
- sFlow VLAN sampling data types
- Implementation result
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Overview: Configuring network monitoring with sFlow
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Event Messages and Attack Types
- Fields in ASM Violations event messages
- Fields in ASM Brute Force and Web Scraping event messages
- Fields in AFM event messages
- Fields in Network DoS Protection event messages
- Fields in Protocol Security event messages
- Fields in DNS event messages
- Fields in DNS DoS event messages
- BIG-IP system process example events
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IPFIX Templates for CGNAT Events
- Overview: IPFIX logging templates
- IPFIX information elements for CGNAT events
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Individual IPFIX templates for each event
- NAT44 session create – outbound variant
- NAT44 session delete – outbound variant
- NAT44 session create – inbound variant
- NAT44 session delete – inbound variant
- NAT44 translation failed
- NAT44 quota exceeded
- NAT44 port block allocated or released
- NAT64 session create – outbound variant
- NAT64 session delete – outbound variant
- NAT64 session create – inbound variant
- NAT64 session delete – inbound variant
- NAT64 translation failed
- NAT64 quota exceeded
- NAT64 port block allocated or released
- DS-Lite session create – outbound variant
- DS-Lite session delete – outbound variant
- DS-Lite session create – inbound variant
- DS-Lite session delete – inbound variant
- DS-Lite translation failed
- DS-Lite quota exceeded
- DS-Lite port block allocated or released
- IPFIX Templates for AFM Events
- IPFIX Templates for AFM DNS Events
- IPFIX Templates for AFM SIP Events
