We had issues at work today and we suspected one of the iRules was causing it by hogging too much CPU. Looked at the iRule
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In order to start writing code you need to get a working installation of BigIPReport. The setup guide here is a good place to start.
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If you’re using the F5 GeoIP database in your environment it’s important to keep it up to date. Public IP networks moves around quite often
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It’s very common to start at a place and realizing that the F5 environment contains loads pools with members down. Often, the reason for this
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Cautionary note to the reader. While this works great to see configuration revisions it is not a full backup of the F5 configuration. Aside from