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Matt_M_62913
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Dec 10, 2012

Heuristic for sysStatHttpRequests?

We are seeing a lot of connections that are not HTTP and that we don't have an ready explanation for. I am getting the number for non-HTTP traffic by getting the total new connections from sysStatC...
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Matt_M_62913
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Dec 12, 2012
OK, it looks like some of our virtual servers are set up as the Performance Layer 4 type, which does not have the HTTP profile option (even though they are handling HTTP traffic). Is that likely to be the source of the traffic that shows as non-HTTP? If so, it looks like monitoring the sysStatHttpRequests OID will not be useful for us.