Monitor / report dropped packets by TMM policing module on VE

Hi Rowan

You will see in /var/log/ltm when you start to reach your limit. I don't know of any counter values to extract though.

Regards Thomas

You can view the drops using tmctl:

 tmctl -d blade tmm/if_shaper
ingress_avg ingress_red ingress_drops egress_drops
----------- ----------- ------------- ------------
        100           0             0            0

You can create a custom script to access via SNMP:

sol13596: Creating custom MIB entries on the BIG-IP system

http://support.f5.com/kb/en-us/solutions/public/13000/500/sol13596.html

If you get stuck let us know. Else, if you figure out a solution, it would be great to add to the Codeshare: https://devcentral.f5.com/wiki/AdvDesignConfig.codeshare.ashx

Thanks, Aaron

Thanks Aaron. Are you able to please supply some information on the fields I am seeing?

ingress_avg: 100 ingress_red: 0 ingress_drops: 0 egress_drops: 921

Is it only the egress drops which will increase as the policing kicks in?

Are the values number of packets?

What are the remaining fields for? When would I expect to see values in these fields?

I have done a Google search for "tmm/if_shaper" and get NOTHING, I have also searched DevCentral and F5.com and get nothing - this is clearly an obscure "table", thanks for identifying it.

Rowan