iControl web app to generate data for Cacti graphing

Interesting discussion. So Matt, just how much "heavier" is iControl, and in which examples? If you use get_all methods instead of trolling through one by one, it seems pretty lightweight to me. I've been collecting about 10,000 data points every 5 minutes using iControl and I haven't run into anything that suggests either the LTM cpus are being adversely impacted or that it's adversely impacting the collection system resources. In fact, given this massive amount of data I'm collecting, the collection run typically completes in less than 3 seconds, which actually is pretty amazing.

 

 

I'm very curious in what cases iControl is not to be used for monitoring, so that I am aware of such limitations and can implement other methods (SNMP) where appropriate.

 

 

Thanks,

 

-Derek