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Tony_Augustine_
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Nov 12, 2008

How to persist monitor data or how to records server downtime over a period

Our aim is to record the availability/outage of our servers over a period of time(eg for a month). Traffic to these servers are routed through BIG-IP LTM. We have monitors setup in F5 to monitor the a...
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JRahm
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Nov 13, 2008
The typical polling cycle for cacti is 5 minutes, so if nodes are bouncing in between polls that information might get lost. Nagios would be ideal in this case, as it can perform passive service checks. If the LTM enables snmp traps for host down/up messages, then the traps can be sent to a Nagios server which will mark the service (pool member) as down/up, and will track availability metrics.