Stats Profiles and bigpipe

Here are some commands in for STATS

 

 

 

bigpipe profile stats help

 

bigpipe profile stats {}

 

bigpipe profile stats ( | all) [{] [}]

 

::=

 

bigpipe profile stats ( | all) delete

 

bigpipe profile stats [ | all] stats reset

 

bigpipe profile stats [ | all] [show [all]]

 

bigpipe profile stats [ | all] list [all]

 

bigpipe profile stats [ | all] defaults from [show]

 

bigpipe profile stats [ | all] field [show]

 

 

 

I hope this helps

 

CB

Yep... but I'm not sure you can get the value for a specific field. If you guys figure that one out, can you reply here?

 

 

b profile stats test_stats show

 

PROFILE STATS test_stats parent stats

 

| virtual servers: test_tcp_vs

 

| counter1: 1

 

| counter2: 10

 

 

Thanks,

 

Aaron

I haven't been able to find a way yet. The one that looks the closest is:

bigpipe profile stats "stats-BNSServer-DEV" field1

But that just returns the field's name:

PROFILE STATS stats-BNSServer-DEV - Field1: over-ttl-connection-count-10.41.53.53:17898

So, I will just use the general stats show command:

bigpipe profile stats "stats-BNSServer-DEV"

Thank you both for your help.

Alternatively you could get the first field through snmpget using the F5-BIGIP-LOCAL-MIB::ltmUserStatProfileStatFieldValue."stats-BNSServer-DEV".1 oid.

or pipe your bigpipe data to grep and awk/cut to refine the output.

Thanks for the input. I ended up using grep and awk to parse the bigpipe output:

 
 fieldName="over-ttl-connection-count-${ip}:${port}" 
 overTtlConnectionCount=`bigpipe profile stats $statProfileName | grep $fieldName | awk '{print $3}'` 
 

However, I now have a different problem. I would like to reset the stats value here to zero. I know I can do this through an iRule using the STATS::set command:

STATS::set "stats-BNSServer-DEV" "over-ttl-connection-count-10.41.53.53:17898" 0

But, I don't know if there is any way to reset this outside of an iRule. Can this be done through bigpipe or any other command-line app? What about iControl?

You mean the following won't reset the stats?

 

 

bigpipe profile stats [ | all] stats reset

I'm sure that will reset the stats. But, I just want to reset one field's value. That command looks like it will reset all of the fields for the given stat profile. Is there some variation that can reset just one field?

I don't think there is way from the b pipe to reset stats in field. However, that isn't to say you can't right up an irule that can reset the stats

 

 

I suppose you can write up an irule that would take information from URI and apply it

 

 

For example

 

http://ip.address.com/profilename/fieldname/reset. Then pass the information to STATS::set $profilename $fieldname 0

 

 

I hope that helps

 

CB

 

 

 

 

I created the iRule as you suggested:

 
 when HTTP_REQUEST 
 { 
  parse URL 
 set urlParts [split [HTTP::uri] /] 
 if {[lindex $urlParts 1] == "F5Stats"} 
 { 
  pull out the statistics profile and field name 
 set statProfile [lindex $urlParts 2] 
 set fieldName [lindex $urlParts 3] 
  
  check for reset flag 
 if {[lindex $urlParts 4] == "reset"} 
 { 
 STATS::set $statProfile $fieldName 0 
 HTTP::respond 200 content "$statProfile/$fieldName was reset to 0" 
 } 
 else 
 { 
 set currentStatValue [STATS::get $statProfile $fieldName] 
 HTTP::respond 200 content "$statProfile/$fieldName = $currentStatValue" 
 } 
 } 
 } 
 

Unfortunately, in order to use the STATS commands in the iRule you have to associate a statistics profile with the VIP. As a consequence of this, you cannot change or view any values that are not on the associated profile. So, to set this up, I would need to set up a different VIP for every statistics profile I wanted to manipulate. Not very easy to manage.

Is there some way around this limitation?