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bentuteh_340831
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Feb 12, 2018

Device Level Statistics on iControlREST

I am attempting to scrape current F5 Device level statistics for CPU, Memory, etc, from an API to instrument into a monitoring system. I see on the GUI dashboard for my F5 device under statistics ==>...
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    bentuteh_340831
    Feb 13, 2018

    So I found a few endpoints that can be queried via iControl REST API for these:

    /mgmt/tm/sys/cpu
/mgmt/tm/sys/memory

    Though undocumented, these provide the device-level stats that I was looking for via REST API. Recursion was very helpful in parsing this data as well.

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Hamish
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Feb 12, 2018

SNMP is probably the easiest method to pull stats. And in theory should be more efficient.

 

There should still be a few examples sprinkled around devcentral. Plus some cacti templates as well.

 

The SNMP MIBs are available from the GUI.