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cxcal_18687
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Feb 04, 2008

Stats Reporting

Are there any embedded tools available to have stats reporting generated automatically and sent via email?     I'm fairly new to using Big-IP and have not found anything in the gui about it.  ...
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JRahm's avatar
JRahm
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Apr 04, 2008
Sort of... The data displayed in the GUI graphs is in /shared/rrd.1.0. You can look through the .info files in that directory to see what's collected. Then you can run a report on the data and email it off.

 

 

I'd recommend not doing this local on the box though. There are some fine & dandy tools that you can install on windows or linux to poll the LTM's via snmp and get great data. I use cacti for this, and am very pleased with the flexibility. Take a look at this tech tip:

 

 

http://devcentral.f5.com/Default.aspx?tabid=63&articleType=ArticleView&articleId=136 Click here