Manual Chapter : Viewing vCMP Guest Status

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BIG-IP AAM

  • 13.0.1, 13.0.0

BIG-IP APM

  • 13.0.1, 13.0.0

BIG-IP LTM

  • 13.0.1, 13.0.0

BIG-IP DNS

  • 13.0.1, 13.0.0

BIG-IP ASM

  • 13.0.1, 13.0.0
Manual Chapter

About guest status

As a vCMP® host administrator, you can log into the vCMP host and view status information about each guest. Using the BIG-IP® Configuration utility or the Traffic Management Shell (tmsh), you can view this information in two forms:

  • A summary of information for all guests on the vCMP system.
  • Detailed information about a specific guest, such as software status, resource provisioning, and high availability (HA) status for specific services running on the guest.

Viewing summary status for all guests

vCMP ® administrators can view guest summary information while logged into the vCMP host. The vCMP system displays this information on a single screen of the BIG-IP® Configuration utility for all guests on the vCMP system. The summary information consists of:

  • Guest names.
  • The product and version number of the currently-active software volume per guest.
  • A list of the specific BIG-IP modules provisioned per guest.
  • Command line interface prompt status per guest. The prompt status consists of status color and high availability (HA) status.
  • HA failure status. This status indicates an HA failure on the guest, and if applicable, a link to the HA Failure screen for the guest.
  1. On the Main tab, click vCMP > Guest Status .
    For example, the following shows a list of sample guests with summary information.
    List of guests with summary information

    List of guests with summary information

  2. In the Name column, find the name of a vCMP guest and view the associated status information.

Viewing software status for a guest

From the vCMP® host, you perform this task to view information about the software installed on a specific vCMP guest on the system.

  1. On the Main tab, click vCMP > Guest List .
    This displays a list of guests on the system.
  2. In the Name column, click the name of the guest that you want to view.
  3. On the menu bar, click Software Status.
    The following shows an example of a guest's installation information.
    Guest installation information

    Guest installation information

Viewing resource provisioning for a guest

From the vCMP® host, you perform this task to view detailed information about current core, memory, and disk allocation for a guest. You can also view a list of the BIG-IP® modules that a vCMP guest administrator has provisioned and the level of provisioning for each module (Dedicated, Nominal, or Minimal).

  1. On the Main tab, click vCMP > Guest List .
    This displays a list of guests on the system.
  2. In the Name column, click the name of the vCMP guest for which you want to view status about resource provisioning.
    This displays the properties of the guest.
  3. On the menu bar, click Resource Provisioned.
    The following shows an example of a guest's resource provisioning.
    Resource provisioning information for a guest

    Resource provisioning information for a guest

Viewing HA failure status

From the vCMP® host, you perform this task to view any high availability (HA) failures pertaining to services running on the guest. For example, you can view whether a feature within the TMROUTED service has failed. You can also view the specific action that the BIG-IP system took when the failure occurred, such as rebooting the system.

  1. On the Main tab, click vCMP > Guest List .
    This displays a list of guests on the system.
  2. In the Name column, click the name of the guest that you want to view.
  3. On the menu bar, click HA Failure.
    The following shows an example of a guest's HA failure status.
    HA failure status for a guest

    HA failure status for a guest