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Shane_Terrick_9
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May 01, 2013

Transactions per second graphs/charts

I am currently running BigIP 10.2.3 and we are trying to guage how much traffic out LTM sees.

 

 

We noticed that there is only a way to gather throughput and not actual transactions per second. Is there an easy way to gather this on the this code level?

 

 

Or do we need to upgrade to gather this.

 

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  • nitass's avatar
    nitass
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    May 02, 2013
    i think you may have to poll OID periodically and do mathematic similiar to the following article. the oid could be found by using snmpwalk and grep whatever stats you are interested.

     

     

    SNMP: Capturing SSL Statistics per Virtual Server by Deb Allen

     

    https://devcentral.f5.com/tech-tips/articles/snmp-capturing-ssl-statistics-per-virtual-server

     

     

    by the way, if it is http, you may consider AVR module which is introduced since 11.0.0.

     

     

    Release Note: BIG-IP Analytics 11.3.0

     

    http://support.f5.com/kb/en-us/products/big-ip_analytics/releasenotes/product/relnote-avr-11-3-0.html
  • Hamish's avatar
    Hamish
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    May 14, 2013
    Grab a copy of cacti and add the templates for various BigIP modules (LTM and GTM).

     

     

    The way of doing it is that SNMP provides the counters. You poll them and divide the difference between the counters in the two polls by the period of polling. That gives you the rate (diff/period). (Having SNMP provide the rate would be meaningly unless you knew exactly what the period it was using to calculate the rates was. And you'd then miss spikes unless you polled at 2x the update freq of the rate gauge.

     

     

    I prefer cacti to AVR. AVR doesn't include enough detail for me, nor the resolution. And is specific to HTTP only.

     

     

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