VMware Aria Operations for Networks supports the router and load balancer functionalities of F5 BIG-IP. The features like VM-VM path, high availability, VRFs, Routes, Router Interfaces, Switch Ports, Port Channels, Switch Port metrics, VRF Dashboard, Switch Dashboard, Router dashboard, and Assurance and Verification (Load Balancing and Source Network Address Translation in path search, and intents) are supported. For search on the F5 BIG IP entities, use the query string F5 BIG-IP Data Source
. VMware Aria Operations for Networks does not support LLDP neighbors or the neighboring devices in the VM-VM path.
Prerequisites
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You must verify the following information:
- The data source and its version is supported in VMware Aria Operations for Networks. For more information, see Supported Products and Versions.
- The data source follows VMware Ports and Protocols supported in VMware Aria Operations for Networks. For more information, see VMware Ports and Protocols.
- You must have the following permissions:
- The Guest role or Read Only permissions with access to all partitions.
- Access to F5 BIG-IP REST API.
Note:- VMware Aria Operations for Networks does not require root user privilege.
Note:
VMware Aria Operations for Networks supports only Local Traffic Module (LTM). Enabling other modules can prevent
VMware Aria Operations for Networks to collect data from the device.
Procedure
What to do next
Note: To send sFLow data to
VMware Aria Operations for Networks, you must follow the recommendations mentioned in
https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K15193.