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jeff_mccombs_47
Nimbostratus
Nimbostratushow have others conquered external monitor resource alloc problems?
I've got a pair of 6900's that are monitoring about 600 backend servers. The servers are polled via an external monitor script that issues a few SNMP gets to check for various overload and down condit...
hwidjaja_37598
Altostratus
AltostratusHow complex is your monitor script?
IMO, external monitor script is quite expensive due to the process forking. Try to reduce number of commands in the script.
As an alternative, offload the monitors to another system (eg. web-based monitor check). So F5 is using HTTP to check the condition of all back-end servers . By doing so, F5 doesn't need to fork new process for each SNMP Get.