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Pedro__Sanchez_
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Jun 02, 2005

help with monitoring

Hi!!!!

 

 

i'm new with BIG IP

 

 

we have one with release 4.5 and i want to check all the inbound connections and the load balancing form a specific ip addres to the pool

 

but the web inteface it doesn't help much!!!

 

 

what can i do

 

 

thanks
  • bknotwell_12713's avatar
    bknotwell_12713
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    Hi Pedro--

     

     

    I'm not exactly sure what you want.

     

     

    If you want to grab all the connections, you can use the get_all_active_connections method. If you just want statistics on a particular vip, you can use a virtual server's get_statistics method.

     

     

    Good luck!
  • well i have an issue with a pool, who contains 2 http-https servers that are balaced in round robin and have persistence in active http cookie

     

     

    so... the people in apps development are asking me to check all the incoming connection from internet (we are doing test with one public ip) and to wich destination server (of the pool) bigip is redirecting the incoming connection

     

     

    thanks
  • bknotwell_12713's avatar
    bknotwell_12713
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    Hi Pedro--

     

     

    I suspect get_all_active_connections does what you need.

     

     

    Good luck!
  • sorry to bother!!!

     

     

    but i took charge of this equipment and i'm really new guy

     

     

    when i invoke the command i get

     

     

    nbip1://config get_all_active_connections

     

    bash: get_all_active_connections: command not found

     

  • bknotwell_12713's avatar
    bknotwell_12713
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    Hi Pedro--

     

     

    get_all_active_connections is a method in the iControl Connections interface.

     

     

    If you want to do it by hand, bigpipe conn dump does what you want.
  • the command shows me the current connection

     

     

    what if i want to see an historic of the connections?

     

     

    thanks
  • Currently we don't store historic data aside from cumulative totals (ie. total_connections, bits_in, bits_out, etc). In v9.0 we've introduced historic performance graphs for certain pieces of data and exposed the values via iControl. In 4.x, you are going to have to build that history yourself by polling for values and storing them locally.

     

     

    -Joe