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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@citizen_elah thanks for the info -- I was unaware of the existence of stats profiles. I dug around on the F5 and see it now. I also did some more digging with snmpwalk and noticed the F5s are keeping http stats per http profile. Ex: there's a ltmHttpProfileStatNumberReqs."http", ltmHttpProfileStatNumberReqs."http-lan-optimized-caching", ltmHttpProfileStatNumberReqs."http-wan-optimized-compression", etc. as well as the same for ltmFastHttpProfileStatNumberReqs."fasthttp". For the pools I want to track, I created new http profiles for use by the vservers using the pools, so now I have a ltmHttpProfileStatNumberReqs."http-api" and similar. Now I need to figure out how to add graphs for these to cacti -- I'm not much of a cacti expert. Anyway, mostly rambling to myself, but I thought someone else might find the tracking per http profile useful as well. I'm imagining it will save some overhead over using iRules to populate.