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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check permissions on /usr/local/cacti/rra/.

 

Make sure the user you are running Cacti with has write access to that folder.

 

 

Also, make sure you added a cron job to run poller every 5 minutes. Your RRD files will not get created until poller runs after the graphs get added to Cacti.