Wednesday, 28 October 2009

Setting up your F5 to use syslog on Version 10 (v10)

Really quick answer to a question I seem to keep looking for....




Q: How do I set up my F5 Load Balancer to output syslog entries to a remote server (e.g. splunk)

A: If you have and LTM v10+

  1. Log in to the command line.
  2. To add a single remote syslog server, type a command similar to the following:
    bigpipe syslog remote server { {host }}
    e.g. bigpipe syslog remote server {monitor.company.com {host 192.168.99.99}}

    To add multiple remote syslog servers, type a command similar to the following:
    bigpipe syslog remote server { {host } {host } ... }
    bigpipe syslog remote server {monitor.company.com {host 192.168.99.99} watcher.company.com {host 192.168.99.88} ... }
  3. To save the configuration, type the following command:
    bigpipe save
 where there is more information about different software versions.