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santosh_81454
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Jul 05, 2010

Unique visitors list from BIGIP ?

Hi,     I am using BigIP Link Controller V10.1.0. Is there any way to log the incoming traffic and to find unique visitors list?  
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Chris_Miller
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Jul 06, 2010
Posted By hoolio on 07/06/2010 08:34 AM

 

If you only have an LC license, I don't think you'll be able to parse anything at layer7 like the HTTP URI. If you could, it would still be expensive in terms of CPU and memory resources to log an entry for every HTTP request or TCP connection. If you did want to do this, the most efficient way to do this would be an iRule using the High Speed Logging commands to send messages to a remote logging server. See the HSL wiki page for details:

 

 

http://devcentral.f5.com/wiki/default.aspx/iRules/hsl

 

 

It might be more tedious to collect and collate the logs from individual servers, but it would be a lot more efficient from the BIG-IP perspective.

 

 

Aaron

 

 

I assume he's got LTM too - at least when I got LC, it included LTM as well. My understanding of LC is that it takes a bit from LTM and a bit from LC. Very interesting request nonetheless....seems like using the table command and adding addresses whenever they were unique would be the way to go (albeit not cpu-friendly)