F5 BIGIP LTM Reboot Script

In an effort to ensure the best performance and stability of our two BIGIP LTM 6400 Load Balancers I have created a script to synchronise and reboot the units regularly.

This script runs a series of checks before rebooting the unit.

1. Check Active/Standby state based upon the output of bigpipe failover show 
2. Check Peer status (up/down) - based upon the result of ping -c 1 -w 5 peer ('peer' is the hostname of the peer BIGIP) 
3. Check the uptime to see when the last time the unit was started, if under a given period then don't reboot 
4. Check configuration synchronisation status based upon the output of bigpipe config sync show 

If the configuration is not in sync then it will attempt to synchronise the configuration using bigpipe config sync all and check the status of the synchronisation again. If the configuration is still not in synch it will exit and not reboot the unit.

Each check/task will output to STDOUT and syslog (facility: local0.notice tag: BIGIP-ADMIN-SCRIPT). Also a result file (/tmp/reboot-cron-job-result) that will be left in place until next run and will also be e-mailed to 'user@domain.tld' (change this to suit your environment).

The same reboot.sh script is used on each unit.

Still some tidying up to do - like using a lockfile and better error handling like using 'set -e' and 'set -u' and traps.

/home/admin/reboot.sh


I run this script using a cron job that occurs at the start of our weekly maintenance window. You can also use this script as a safe way to force a failover and reboot.