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pgranere_71831
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Mar 07, 2011

irule for bandwidth alert or active connection alert

I'm hoping that someone can help me out with this. Is there a way to write an irule to send out a notification if we reach 10megs throughput? or 11k sessions? just a simple e-mail?

 

i know it shows up on the performance menu but it would be great to setup like a threshold or notification when it gets to a certain point.

 

 

Has anyone ever accomplished this? Or can help?

 

 

Thanks

 

Phil

 

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  • Chris_Miller's avatar
    Chris_Miller
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    Mar 07, 2011
    The only option I can think of for an iRule would be to keep track of sessions but even that would likely create a log message that you'd still have to leverage snmp or syslog to alert on.

     

     

    I do similar monitoring but use SNMP polling to alert. Is that an option for you?
  • L4L7_53191's avatar
    L4L7_53191
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    Mar 07, 2011
    I'm not totally clear on the use case, but it sounds like you're looking for a box-total style alert. If so, look here for starters:

     

     

    http://support.f5.com/kb/en-us/solutions/public/6000/400/sol6414.html?sr=13124358

     

    -and for custom traps,

     

    http://devcentral.f5.com/Default.aspx?tabid=63&articleType=ArticleView&articleId=256

     

     

    If you're looking for per-connection information you may consider the TCP::bandwidth command from an iRule.

     

     

    -Matt