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Steve_Warren_89
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Jan 15, 2009

iRule question for capturing simple VIP TCP stats

I am just getting started with iRules and have what I hope is a basic question. We need to report, on a daily basis, the total amount and maximum number of TCP connections established on one Virtual ...
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JRahm
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Jan 22, 2009
It's not an iRule, but have you considered pulling these stats via snmp and graphing in a network management server? Cacti is an open-source solution that does this very well, and there are templates for LTM. An article I wrote on installing cacti is here: Click here. CactiEZ is way easier, though, so if you want to play around to see if it will work for you, I'd start there.