Intermittent Dropouts for sever behind F5 LTM

Hi LD24,

as NikhilB already recommended, a TCPDUMP may help to find out the issue:

tcpdump -nnni 0.0:nnnp -s 0 -w /shared/monitoring.cap host 

It will trace all client- and serverside traffic initiated by your operations manager tool and perhaps it might make sense to add another filter (i.e. 'and host ) depending on the way you forward the monitoring traffic.

The tcpdump syntax above is adding the so called "F5 Ethernet Trailer" data (the "nnn"-flag in the interface definition) to your raw dump file /shared/monitoring.cap and contains as well the related traffic on "peer" side (triggered by the "p"-flag in the interface definition).

Description of and required WireShark plugin to decode the trailer data can be found here on DevCentral.

Thanks, Stephan