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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May 28, 2010
Hi,

 

 

I've created a new F5 BIG-IP template using the "F5_BigIP_v9-Host_Template-rev_7.zip" (thanks to Terje Gravvold, citizen_elah, BSOD2600 and matibut14) and other stuff I found on the Internet. I've also added many graphs and data queries (MultiHost CPU Statistics, Pool Statistics and Pool Member Statistics).

 

 

You can check it out and download it from the official cacti repository:

 

http://docs.cacti.net/usertemplate:host:f5:bigip

 

 

Best Regards

 

Youri