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goldberg_33306
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Jan 24, 2008

Cacti or SolarWinds Orion

Hi. I would like to know if Cacti will provide more information about our BigIPs over Solarwinds Orion. Today we monitor the BigIPs with Orion but we don't get any useful stats besides CPU Utilizati...
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JRahm
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Jan 24, 2008
I am not familiar with Solarwinds Orion, but I can tell you that I am currently graphing the following with Cacti:

 

 

VIP I/O traffic, connections, connection rate

 

TMM CPU/Memory Utilization

 

Global HTTP request/response information.

 

 

Here's a thread with a screencap of the http traffic:

 

 

http://devcentral.f5.com/Default.aspx?tabid=53&forumid=32&tpage=1&view=topic&postid=1627519927 Click here

 

 

And here's an article that details how to configure Cacti for graphing the F5 LTM:

 

 

http://devcentral.f5.com/Default.aspx?tabid=63&articleType=ArticleView&articleId=136 Click here