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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Feb 20, 2009
adding the device doesn't mean the data is set up to be polled. Under the Create menu, select New Graphs, select your BIG-IP host, then select the checkboxes for the graphs you want created. For the data queries, you can run them in debug mode to see where you're getting stuck. Make sure you placed the xml/script files in the directory structure and changed permissions and ownership as necessary on your system.