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
Thank you very much for your quick reply. I check the permission and I am running as a root user. Permission seems to be okay.

 

 

When adding device, under "Associated Data Queries" section, I can see following output:

 

 

1) F5 BigIP - Interface Statistics (Verbose Query) Uptime Goes Backwards Success [0 Items, 0 Rows] Reload Data Query Delete Data Query Association

 

2) F5 BigIP - VS Statistics (Verbose Query) Uptime Goes Backwards Success [0 Items, 0 Rows]

 

 

There shuold be some numbers instead of Success [0 Items, 0 Rows] , rt?

 

 

When I click at "Verbose Query" under debugging, it shows following error message under "Data Query Debug Information" :

 

+ Running data query [18].

 

+ Found type = '3' [snmp query].

 

+ Could not find data query XML file at 'path_cacti/resource/snmp_queries/f5_bigip_ifStat.xml'

 

+ Error parsing XML file into an array.

 

+ Could not find data query XML file at 'path_cacti/resource/snmp_queries/f5_bigip_ifStat.xml'

 

+ Could not find data query XML file at 'path_cacti/resource/snmp_queries/f5_bigip_ifStat.xml'

 

+ Could not find data query XML file at 'path_cacti/resource/snmp_queries/f5_bigip_ifStat.xml'