F5 Loadbalancer Certificate discovery

[Nisha30]

Hello Experts,

From the F5 LoadBalancer Certificate documentation can anyone assist what exact credential we need to setup in ServiceNow.

We have dedicated Account - 

1. Do we need to create SSH credential in ServiceNow?

2. DO we need to create SNMP credentials in ServiceNow?

3. OR they need to be given permission on F5 device end?

It is not clear if we need to create cerdentials in ServiceNow. The pattern are active and in Extension section has been added.

Thanks

[sivasankaris]

Hi @Nisha30 ,

From this documentation It's clear we can use either the SSH or SNMP Credentials for discovering the F5 Load balancer.. In our organization we used SNMP Creds to discover the loadbalancer.

And in the docs.., It is mentioned that if your F5 Loadbalancer is only having the ipv6 ip address means.. In that case SSH is supported.

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[Nisha30]

Thanks @sivasankaris  for responding.

we only have IPv4 and planning to do via REST calls (for now our network team has avoided SSH)

I have not done this set up before so can you help what exact credential needs to be setup for API calls here . 

1. We are in process of creating a AD account 

2. Ports TCP 443 opened 

3. in ServiceNow what exact steps to be followed for credential setup

If can assist will be helpful

Thanks

[sivasankaris]

Hi @Nisha30 ,

We done this F5 BigIP LoadBalancer discovery using patterns.. Not by the API Calls

So to Implement this:

1)Navigate to discovery > credentials > SNMP V3 (we received V3 from our client)

2)Then Run the discovery for that credential..

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[Nisha30]

Hi @sivasankaris 

sorry not clear if you can elaborate , so using Discovery patterns :

F5 Load Balancer 

and 

F5 Load Balancer SSH patterns

is API call not the option? so is it only SSH  or SNMPv3 then ? Does it mean API call has a different way of discovering ?? Silly question but i am not clear if you can elaborate please.

Does API call mean we need to create Web services ? 

Thanks