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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Thanks citizen_elah ... now I'm anxiously waiting for the graphs to populate. a little concerned because it's been 15 minutes and I've got nothing so far. I saw this populate in my error_log sh: /usr/local/rrdtool: is a directory

 

and i've verified that I have connectivity via snmp to the ltm. aargh!