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mikand_61525
Icon for Nimbostratus rankNimbostratus
Nov 23, 2008

View current bandwidth for particular interface

Is it possible (with some built in command or such) to through ssh see how much bandwidth (in mbit/s or so) a F5 BigIp unit utilizes over a particular interface?     ifconfig can be used to...
application delivery
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Hamish's avatar
Hamish
Icon for Cirrocumulus rankCirrocumulus
Dec 02, 2008
Can you get access to a copy of Cacti? Or if no existing one, do you have a box (Or even a VMWare session) that you could run something like EZCacti on? Then just poll the F5 with Cacti via SNMP and you'll be away laughing.

 

 

There's some templates floating around here for LTM/GTM specific stuff, and some shorter templates with specific graphs for some stuff I did for cacti as well to extend them.

 

 

Hamish.