Graphing your F5 LTM Environment with Cacti

Capturing load balancer traffic flows is not something that is elegantly (or even rudimentarily) handled by most commercial applications, or at least the ones I've worked with.  Several can't even...
Published Dec 07, 2007
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Jan 29, 2008
After install unable to create graphs for the the default localhost or ltms I created.

 

 

Apache logs show

 

 

ERROR: opening '/usr/local/cacti/rra/localhost_mem_buffers_3.rrd': No such file or directory

 

ERROR: opening '/usr/local/cacti/rra/localhost_users_6.rrd': No such file or directory

 

ERROR: opening '/usr/local/cacti/rra/localhost_load_1min_5.rrd': No such file or directory

 

ERROR: opening '/usr/local/cacti/rra/localhost_proc_7.rrd': No such file or directory

 

 

and sure enough there are no .rrd files in /usr/local/cacti/rra

 

 

pretty much stuck with the versions in this howto ... running on a linux (centos) box - anyone have any ideas?