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myabe_230403
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Dec 03, 2015

CLIENT_SIDE_CURRENT_CONNECTIONS greater than CLIENT_SIDE_MAX_CONNECTIONS

Hello,   I am using the SOAP API to get some network data. I noticed that very often I get the number of current connections (CLIENT_SIDE_CURRENT_CONNECTIONS) greater than the number of max connec...
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mhite_60883
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Dec 10, 2015

So I've not used the Perl library myself (I've only used the Python pycontrol and bigsuds libraries) so I'm not 100% certain, unfortunately.

 

Looking at the CPAN link, though, I don't see a get_global_statistics helper function. I presume if you are using a function from that helper library, however, that it prepares the SOAP responses into the appropriate Perl data structure which would hopefully do the proper fiddling of the high/low portions of the LB response.

 

See this link for an explanation of the high/low stuff I mentioned:

 

https://metacpan.org/pod/BigIP::iControlStatistic-Methods