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F5 Networks

1 - BIG-IP

BIG-IP: Provides load balancing, traffic management, and application security for optimized service delivery.

To onboard such a source to Axoflow, complete the generic appliance onboarding steps.

Note that the device can be configured to send logs formatted as plain-text syslog, JSON, or key-value pairs. AxoRouter can automatically parse all flavors.

Labels

Axoflow automatically adds the following labels to data collected from this source:

Analytics label Message field value
vendor meta.vendor f5
product meta.product bigip
service meta.service.name ASM, apmd, audit_forwarder, CROND, F5, httpd, mcpd, sshd, sshd(pam_audit), systemd-journal, tmm, tmm1, tmm2, tmsh

You can use the labels as:

You can use the message fields

  • in Flow Processing steps, for example, in the Query field of Select Messages steps,
  • in AQL expressions in the search bars.

Sending data to Splunk

When sending the data collected from this source to Splunk, Axoflow uses the following sourcetype and index settings:

sourcetype index
f5:bigip:syslog netops
f5:bigip:ltm:access_json netops
f5:bigip:asm:syslog netops
f5:bigip:apm:syslog netops
f5:bigip:ltm:ssl:error netops
f5:bigip:ltm:tcl:error netops
f5:bigip:ltm:traffic netops
f5:bigip:ltm:log:error netops
f5:bigip:gtm:dns:request:irule netops
f5:bigip:gtm:dns:response:irule netops
f5:bigip:ltm:http:irule netops
f5:bigip:ltm:failed:irule netops
nix:syslog netops

Tested with: Splunk Add-on for F5 BIG-IP

Sending data to Google SecOps

When sending the data collected from this source to a dynamic Google SecOps destination, Axoflow sets the following log type: F5_BIGIP_APM.