What is 'The percentage of CPU running in ANIP mode.'

I had to look this one up as I personally don't have an ANIP enabled device to work with. Here's some relevant information on ANIP.

 

 

ANIP (Auxillary Network Interface Processor) mode is a mode in which a percentage of CPU utilization is dedicated to network interface processing.

 

 

The first metric (GLOBAL_STATISTIC_ANIP_PERCENT) represents the percentage of time that an ANIP is doing useful work.

 

 

The second metric (GLOBAL_STATISTIC_MAX_ANIP_PERCENT) represents the high-water mark of the percentage of time an ANIP is doing useful work.

 

 

According to the documentation, BIG-IP has 3 overall processing modes that are mutually exclusive.

 

 

UP - UniProcessor

 

SMP - Symmetric Multiprocessor

 

ANIP - Auxillary Network Interface Processor

 

 

Single Processor System:

 

UP - Default

 

SMP - Not applicable

 

ANIP - Not applicable

 

 

Two Processor System:

 

UP - Happens temporarily at bootup only until transition to SMP or ANIP mode is complete. Not otherwise supported.

 

SMP - Default if no network interfaces are ANIP-enabled. Optionally configurable by ANIP-disabling all ANIP-capable network interfaces prior to boot.

 

ANIP - Default if any network interface is ANIP-enabled

 

 

This is all the info I have on ANIP mode. If you need more information feel free to contact F5 Technical Support

 

 

F5 Technical Support

 

Email: support@f5.com

 

Phone: 206-272-6888

 

Web: http://www.f5.com/support/

 

AskF5: http://tech.f5.com/

 

 

-Joe

As a follow-up, some of the stuff in the API simply exposes data that

 

can be had through the F5 interface.

 

 

I'm happy to ask the support folks, but it's not always clear to me how

 

the data exposed in the API maps to the interface or bigpipe command

 

set, which is what the support folks are most familiar with.

 

 

How do I get this mapping, so I can ask the right questions?

We took a lot of time trying to make the SDK be as intuitive as possible with relation to the web interface. Currently there is no official mapping of iControl methods to the web interfaces or bigpipe commands as we have honestly never seen a need. I'd be very interested in learning what you find (specifically) as not being clear about where the API relates to the other user interfaces. We can use that information to enhance the SDK documentation in the future.

 

 

-Joe

As a follow-up, we spoke to our technical rep recently, who took

 

some of my questions back to be pondered by F5. It's not terribly clear

 

to me what all stats that the F5 keeps mean, and how I can use them for

 

capacity planning.

 

 

Not really an api question at this point.

 

 

Thanks, Michel