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nik_65678
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Jan 25, 2010

monitoring http statistics

so i'm looking to do some monitoring for our http vips and i have a question that i've been unable to find an answer to.

 

 

let's say i have a single vip that multiple http vhosts go through. i'd like to record statistics on each vhost separately, for example:

 

 

vip: f5_http_vip

 

-- request: www.foo.bar/file.html

 

-- request: www.bar.foo/blah/

 

-- request: www.boo.far/zz.jpg

 

 

now, in this example i have one vip/ip on the f5 and three requests for three domains. using the http profile is it possible with snmp to pull statistics for hits per hostname? i'm pretty sure that this would be a job for the statistics profile but i'm not horribly familiar with that and have no idea what type of overhead it would add.

 

 

we've been using mrtg for a (very) long time but i'm probably going to move forward with cacti - can you guys recommend anything else for plotting statistical data pulled from an f5?

 

 

any advice you guys could give me would be appreciated :]
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  • The_Bhattman's avatar
    The_Bhattman
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    Jan 25, 2010
    Hi Nik,

     

    I went through the same excercise with my clients who wanted to pull this information. As you mentioned Statistics profile did the job nicely for us and we have roughly 213 websites on a single VIP. The ultimate solution was that we decided to use Google Analytics and Web Trends combination. The reason why we chose this is because our requirements kept changing and we couldn't keep up with the demand on customizing the Stats Profile. We did however, use a nice iRule to embed the analytics

     

     

    http://devcentral.f5.com/Default.aspx?tabid=63&articleType=ArticleView&articleId=174

     

     

    I hope this helps

     

     

    Bhattman