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cxcal_18687
Nimbostratus
NimbostratusPerformance Stats - Where to start??
Where does one start with trying to pull performance stats from the Big-IP v.9.3.1
I'm new to using iControls.
Would also like to get into monitoring Big-IP health.
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Hamish
Cirrocumulus
CirrocumulusDo you have a repository of choice for the stats? If you're using cacti there are some existing SNMP templates. But you could add some iControl templates quite easily too.
Just be aware that
1. You can't get all the stats via iControl, for some of them you'll HAVE to go with SNMP (e.g. Host CPU stats).
2. iControl is pretty heavy on CPU and memory (Many versions of BigIP have memory leaks around iControl). You can find your devices running out of memory (Linux side) and they become a bit flaky when they start to page (Because sod gets paged out).
I've used both. Just pulling stats on iControl SHOULD be OK. But be aware that if ou do things like traversing the config pulling VS & pool info too often you'll probably run out of memory before long. And chew up anything up to 25% CPU of a 6400 doing it (YMMV depending on version).
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