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Sallz
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Feb 22, 2022

F5 current traffic

How to check current traffic through the F5, I ran following command

show ltm virtual>> Does this showe me all historical or current traffic? are the current connections the active ones right now and its contributing to 9.7T of totall bits in? that doesnt sound right or am I reading it wrong?

Traffic ClientSide Ephemeral General
Bits In 9.7T 0 -
Bits Out 30.6T 0 -
Packets In 6.7G 0 -
Packets Out 7.7G 0 -
Current Connections 572 0 -
Maximum Connections 146.1K 0 -
Total Connections 997.4M 0 -
Evicted Connections 0 0 -
Slow Connections Killed 0 0 -
Min Conn Duration/msec - - 2
Max Conn Duration/msec - - 9.4G
Mean Conn Duration/msec - - 848.1K
Total Requests - - 0

 

  • Most of these are counters and not gauges, so they are cummulative. The fields are similar to the ones available in the GUI (not all) and the HTML help in the GUI has a good guide on what's current and what's cummulative.

  • Most of these are counters and not gauges, so they are cummulative. The fields are similar to the ones available in the GUI (not all) and the HTML help in the GUI has a good guide on what's current and what's cummulative.