Overview
The Data Theorem API F5 BIG-IP agent can be deployed to F5
Deploying The Network Analyzer
Deploy the network analyzer
Configuring F5 Big-IP Device
Create F5 pool named httpmirrorpool
Add node running network-analyzer to httpmirrorpool
Create F5 iRule named http_mirroring
to mirror HTTP requests to the new pool by copy/pasting our provided iRule
when RULE_INIT { # Log debug locally to /var/log/ltm? 1=yes, 0=no set static::hsl_debug 1 # Pool name to clone requests to set static::hsl_pool "httpmirrorpool" } when CLIENT_ACCEPTED { if {[active_members $static::hsl_pool]==0}{ log "[IP::client_addr]:[TCP::client_port]: [virtual name] $static::hsl_pool down, not logging" set bypass 1 return } else { set bypass 0 } # Open a new HSL connection if one is not available set hsl [HSL::open -proto TCP -pool $static::hsl_pool] if {$static::hsl_debug}{log local0. "[IP::client_addr]:[TCP::client_port]: New hsl handle: $hsl"} } when HTTP_REQUEST { # If the HSL pool is down, do not run more code here if {$bypass}{ return } # Insert an XFF header if one is not inserted already # So the client IP can be tracked for the duplicated traffic HTTP::header insert X-Forwarded-For [IP::client_addr] # Check for POST requests if {[HTTP::method] eq "POST"}{ # Check for Content-Length between 1b and 1Mb if { [HTTP::header Content-Length] >= 1 and [HTTP::header Content-Length] < 1048576 }{ HTTP::collect [HTTP::header Content-Length] } elseif {[HTTP::header Content-Length] == 0}{ # POST with 0 content-length, so just send the headers HSL::send $hsl "[HTTP::request]\n" if {$static::hsl_debug}{log local0. "[IP::client_addr]:[TCP::client_port]: Sending [HTTP::request]"} } } else { # Request with no payload, so send just the HTTP headers to the clone pool HSL::send $hsl "[HTTP::request]\n" if {$static::hsl_debug}{log local0. "[IP::client_addr]:[TCP::client_port]: Sending [HTTP::request]"} } } when HTTP_REQUEST_DATA { # The parser does not allow HTTP::request in this event, but it works set request_cmd "HTTP::request" if {$static::hsl_debug}{log local0. "[IP::client_addr]:[TCP::client_port]: Collected [HTTP::payload length] bytes,\ sending [expr {[string length [eval $request_cmd]] + [HTTP::payload length]}] bytes total"} HSL::send $hsl "[eval $request_cmd][HTTP::payload]\nf" }
Add http_mirroring
iRule to applications