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vRealize True Visibility Management Pack for F5 BIG-IP

11 FEB 2021 | Build 17563445

06 OCT 2020 | Build 17002634

What's in the Release Notes

The release notes cover the following topics:

About vRealize True Visibility Management Pack for F5 BIG-IP
Before You Begin
Known Issues/Limitations

About vRealize True Visibility Management Pack for F5 BIG-IP

The VMware vRealize^® True Visibility™ Management Pack for F5 BIG-IP is an embedded adapter for vRealize Operations (vROps), collecting performance and capacity data from your F5 BIG-IP environment and providing predictive analytics and real-time information about problems in your infrastructure—all within the vRealize Operations user interface.

Version	Release Date	Description
4.0.1	11 FEB 2021	Added vROps v8.3 support
4.0.0	06 OCT 2020	Initial General Availability release for VMware vRealize^® True Visibility™

For more information, see the product documentation.

Before You Begin

	vROps Requirements	F5 BIG-IP Requirements
Version(s)	vRealize Operations 7.x or 8.x (Advanced & Enterprise editions)	F5 BIG-IP 11.6.0+
Connection	vROps hostname or IP address	F5 BIG-IP hostname (i.e., Management IP or DNS name of F5 BIG-IP System) Port (the default port is 443)
Credentials		F5 BIG-IP username/password with a minimum of Auditor user role with iControl REST API access. To create a user with permissions to read REST, you must first create an Auditor user, then give the user REST permissions as described in the “About iControl and RBAC for user accounts”section of the iControl^® REST User Guide. Please note that an F5 Administrator user role is required to collect certain metrics. See: Metrics (F5 BIG-IP). To use LDAP authentication, see our Support team's knowledge article on Using LDAP to Authenticate with F5 BIG-IP Management Pack for vROps.

vROps Requirements

F5 BIG-IP Requirements

Version(s)

vRealize Operations 7.x or 8.x (Advanced & Enterprise editions)

F5 BIG-IP 11.6.0+

Connection

vROps hostname or IP address

F5 BIG-IP hostname (i.e., Management IP or DNS name of F5 BIG-IP System)

Port (the default port is 443)

Credentials

F5 BIG-IP username/password with a minimum of Auditor user role with iControl REST API access.

To create a user with permissions to read REST, you must first create an Auditor user, then give the user REST permissions as described in the “About iControl and RBAC for user accounts”section of the iControl^® REST User Guide. Please note that an F5 Administrator user role is required to collect certain metrics. See: Metrics (F5 BIG-IP).
To use LDAP authentication, see our Support team's knowledge article on Using LDAP to Authenticate with F5 BIG-IP Management Pack for vROps.

Known Issues/Limitations

The following known issues/limitations exist for the currently-released version of the Management Pack:

Monitoring is limited to BIG-IP Devices, Local Traffic Manager (LTM), and select Global Traffic Manager (GTM) resources.
New users of the Management Pack may encounter issues with the F5 BIG-IP Health Investigation dashboard populating upon initial install. This is a pre-existing issue that occurs when the VM tag initially creates relationships to VMs. If you encounter this issue, we recommend waiting for the tag to populate, then re-starting your vROps system or re-installing the dashboard.