F5 Appliances, what class should they be identified under in the CMDB?

[Tina Bowers]

We recently moved CMDB management back in-house after having a vendor manage it for a few years, and I am working on cleaning up the CMDB.   We currently have the F5 devices under Network Gear, but I know that isn't correct, as that is a parent class.  Can anyone tell me what class F5 appliances are identified as?   It is important so that I can assign the correct support group,

[Community Alums]

Hi @Tina Bowers ,

F5 is mostly Classified as "Load Balancers" !!
Discovery treats load balancers as licensable entities and attempts to discover them primarily using SNMP. If a load balancer in your system, running on a Linux host, has SNMP and SSH ports open, Discovery might classify it based on the SSH port. This classification has priority over SNMP. To ensure that Discovery properly classifies your hardware load balancers, create a Discovery behavior for load balancers that includes SNMP but not SSH. Software load balancers are treated as applications.

Discovery uses these classifiers, probes, and pattern for F5 discovery:

Classifiers	Trigger probes	Patterns
F5 BIG-IP Load Balancer	Horizontal discovery probe: launches patterns	These patterns are used for standard horizontal discovery including identifying clusters: F5 Load Balancer F5 Load Balancer SSH F5REST F5 REST OAuth 2.0 authentication Note: The F5 Load Balancer and F5 Load Balancer SSH patterns include the extension section that discovers F5 certificates.
F5 HTTP	The F5 HTTP classifier does not use a trigger probe. It triggers the F5 Load Balancer REST pattern to perform data collection via REST.	These patterns use iRules to get information via REST. Service Mapping uses these patterns for top-down discovery: F5 Load Balancer REST F5 BigIP GTM F5 BigIP LTM

[Tina Bowers]

Thank you!  We are working on setting up discovery now, but it has been slow going.

[Community Alums]

Hi @Tina Bowers ,