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Kevin_130699
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Aug 01, 2013

Unique user logging

Hello all. i am new to this so hopefully this makes sense. i want to be able to create a report that will count the number of unique connections per pool member inside the Virtual Server. Can this be done or has it been done?

 

 

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Kevin

 

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  • nitass's avatar
    nitass
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    Aug 01, 2013
    is snmp polling usable?

    e.g. 

    [root@B3900-R67-S12:Active:Standalone] config  snmpwalk -v 2c -c public localhost f5|grep ltmPoolMemberStatServerCurConns
F5-BIGIP-LOCAL-MIB::ltmPoolMemberStatServerCurConns."/Common/foo"."/Common/200.200.200.101".80 = Counter64: 52
  • Kevin_Stewart's avatar
    Kevin_Stewart
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    Aug 01, 2013
    You can also use TMSH: 

    
tmsh show ltm pool local-pool |grep "Current Connections" | awk -F" " '{ print $3 }'

    This will of course is giving you current connections (a fleeting number), while total connections would give you the count of all TCP connections from last counter reset. Also understand that these are TCP numbers, and not necessarily representative of a number of users.

    You can also use a stats profile or iStats to collect, count, aggregate, gauge, and (optionally) rate these data points. The Application Verification and Reporting (AVR) licensed module will give you all of this and more in a nice graphical/exportable package, as will the Enterprise Manager product. There are also third party tools, Splunk, Q1, Cacti, etc. that can build reports from custom SNMP and syslog data points.