By default, F5 BIG-IP Load Balancer discovery and monitoring is enabled.

To enable F5 BIG-IP Load Balancer discovery and monitoring:

  1. At the BASEDIR/smarts/bin directory, type the following command:

                   sm_edit conf/esm/ESM.import
                
  2. Enter the following lines:

    # Enable F5 BigIP load balancer discovery and monitoring.
    IsF5 = TRUE
    
  3. Save and close the file.

  4. Restart the ESM Domain Manager to load the changed values in ESM.import file into the ESM server.