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Domai's avatar
Domai
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Aug 06, 2014

Are LTM monitors counted against the number of connections in Statistics?

Hello I just want to know if the monitors say http or https that are assigned to the pool...when they perform a health check are those requests counted in the statistics?...Like Max Connections or Bi...
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nitass
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Aug 06, 2014

i understand it is not counted.

 config

[root@ve11a:Active:In Sync] config  tmsh list ltm pool foo
ltm pool foo {
    members {
        200.200.200.101:80 {
            address 200.200.200.101
            session monitor-enabled
            state up
        }
    }
    monitor http
}

 trace

[root@ve11a:Active:In Sync] config  tcpdump -nni 0.0 -s0 port 80
tcpdump: verbose output suppressed, use -v or -vv for full protocol decode
listening on 0.0, link-type EN10MB (Ethernet), capture size 65535 bytes
09:33:15.774667 IP 200.200.200.11.43696 > 200.200.200.101.80: S 3385390792:3385390792(0) win 14600  out slot1/tmm0 lis=
09:33:15.793403 IP 200.200.200.101.80 > 200.200.200.11.43696: S 1137742109:1137742109(0) ack 3385390793 win 5792  in slot1/tmm0 lis=
09:33:15.795408 IP 200.200.200.11.43696 > 200.200.200.101.80: . ack 1 win 115  out slot1/tmm0 lis=
09:33:15.795415 IP 200.200.200.11.43696 > 200.200.200.101.80: P 1:8(7) ack 1 win 115  out slot1/tmm0 lis=
09:33:15.797227 IP 200.200.200.101.80 > 200.200.200.11.43696: . ack 8 win 46  in slot1/tmm0 lis=
09:33:15.818777 IP 200.200.200.101.80 > 200.200.200.11.43696: P 1:90(89) ack 8 win 46  in slot1/tmm0 lis=
09:33:15.821000 IP 200.200.200.11.43696 > 200.200.200.101.80: . ack 90 win 115  out slot1/tmm0 lis=
09:33:15.821021 IP 200.200.200.11.43696 > 200.200.200.101.80: F 8:8(0) ack 90 win 115  out slot1/tmm0 lis=
09:33:15.858204 IP 200.200.200.101.80 > 200.200.200.11.43696: F 90:90(0) ack 9 win 46  in slot1/tmm0 lis=
09:33:15.860471 IP 200.200.200.11.43696 > 200.200.200.101.80: . ack 91 win 115  out slot1/tmm0 lis=

09:33:20.686629 IP 200.200.200.11.43700 > 200.200.200.101.80: S 597182491:597182491(0) win 14600  out slot1/tmm0 lis=
09:33:20.779630 IP 200.200.200.101.80 > 200.200.200.11.43700: S 2949160849:2949160849(0) ack 597182492 win 5792  in slot1/tmm0 lis=
09:33:20.781817 IP 200.200.200.11.43700 > 200.200.200.101.80: . ack 1 win 115  out slot1/tmm0 lis=
09:33:20.781824 IP 200.200.200.11.43700 > 200.200.200.101.80: P 1:8(7) ack 1 win 115  out slot1/tmm0 lis=
09:33:20.784918 IP 200.200.200.101.80 > 200.200.200.11.43700: . ack 8 win 46  in slot1/tmm0 lis=
09:33:20.841604 IP 200.200.200.101.80 > 200.200.200.11.43700: P 1:90(89) ack 8 win 46  in slot1/tmm0 lis=
09:33:20.843781 IP 200.200.200.11.43700 > 200.200.200.101.80: . ack 90 win 115  out slot1/tmm0 lis=
09:33:20.843789 IP 200.200.200.11.43700 > 200.200.200.101.80: F 8:8(0) ack 90 win 115  out slot1/tmm0 lis=
09:33:20.851541 IP 200.200.200.101.80 > 200.200.200.11.43700: F 90:90(0) ack 9 win 46  in slot1/tmm0 lis=
09:33:20.853728 IP 200.200.200.11.43700 > 200.200.200.101.80: . ack 91 win 115  out slot1/tmm0 lis=

09:33:25.696985 IP 200.200.200.11.43701 > 200.200.200.101.80: S 2967623548:2967623548(0) win 14600  out slot1/tmm1 lis=
09:33:25.699588 IP 200.200.200.101.80 > 200.200.200.11.43701: S 533510906:533510906(0) ack 2967623549 win 5792  in slot1/tmm1 lis=
09:33:25.701704 IP 200.200.200.11.43701 > 200.200.200.101.80: . ack 1 win 115  out slot1/tmm1 lis=
09:33:25.701711 IP 200.200.200.11.43701 > 200.200.200.101.80: P 1:8(7) ack 1 win 115  out slot1/tmm1 lis=
09:33:25.703652 IP 200.200.200.101.80 > 200.200.200.11.43701: . ack 8 win 46  in slot1/tmm1 lis=
09:33:25.708105 IP 200.200.200.101.80 > 200.200.200.11.43701: P 1:90(89) ack 8 win 46  in slot1/tmm1 lis=
09:33:25.710294 IP 200.200.200.11.43701 > 200.200.200.101.80: . ack 90 win 115  out slot1/tmm1 lis=
09:33:25.710300 IP 200.200.200.11.43701 > 200.200.200.101.80: F 8:8(0) ack 90 win 115  out slot1/tmm1 lis=
09:33:25.722023 IP 200.200.200.101.80 > 200.200.200.11.43701: F 90:90(0) ack 9 win 46  in slot1/tmm1 lis=
09:33:25.724173 IP 200.200.200.11.43701 > 200.200.200.101.80: . ack 91 win 115  out slot1/tmm1 lis=
^C
30 packets captured
30 packets received by filter
0 packets dropped by kernel

 stats

[root@ve11a:Active:In Sync] config  tmsh show ltm pool foo

---------------------------------------------------------------------
Ltm::Pool: foo
---------------------------------------------------------------------
Status
  Availability : available
  State        : enabled
  Reason       : The pool is available
  Monitor      : http
  Minimum Active Members : 0
  Current Active Members : 1
          Total Requests : 0
        Current Sessions : 0

Traffic                                  ServerSide
  Bits In                                         0
  Bits Out                                        0
  Packets In                                      0
  Packets Out                                     0
  Current Connections                             0
  Maximum Connections                             0
  Total Connections                               0

Connection Queue                               Pool  Pool and members
  Number of connections queued now                0                 0
  Number of connections serviced                  0                 0
  Queue head entry age (ms)                       0                 0
  Maximum queue entry age ever (ms)               0                 0
  Maximum queue entry age recently (ms)           0                 0
  Average queue entry age (ms)                    0                 0