VMware vRealize True Visibility Suite Management Pack for F5 BIG-IP Release Notes

VMware vRealize True Visibility Suite Management Pack for F5 BIG-IP | 23 DEC 2021

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What's New | December 23, 2021

Removal of unused log4j.jar file from the pack, to lower the risk of loading the file. Please refer to the KB article for details.

Old licenses are not supported; the new VMware license is required to use this pack.

CPU license alert fix
Maintenance mode object being counted in OSI license count
Rewrite data provider from JRuby to Kotlin
Device resources are named with FQDN instead of short name
Metric device / platformId type label has changed from "Platform" to "Platform ID"
Add metric deviceGroup / description
Add unit to gtm_pool / qosKilobytesSecond
Simplify test results returned by test connection
Add connection info parameters connection_timeout and max_concurrent_requests
Add ssl_config connection info parameter that defaults to No Verify. No Verify was the hard-coded behavior of the old JRuby data provider
Connection info parameter port now defaults to 8443 when ssl_config is set to No SSL or is empty
big_ip_system metrics memoryUsed and memoryTotal now correctly use floats instead of being truncated to the nearest integer
Additional module resources are now being collected

For this release of the Management Pack for F5 BIG-IP, the following Known Issues/Limitations exist:

Old licenses are not supported; the new VMware license is required to use this 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.