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dkinsler_23191
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Sep 01, 2009

Monitoring Types of http data or contect

I have a question to the group. I have a few LTM's and have a need to know what kind of data my vips are sending out. I use solarwinds to measure traffic with netflow, but it does not tell me items such as how much of my bandwidth is flash, images, http web pages, etc.., it just tells me "http" and the total amount.

 

 

Does anyone know of a way or an app that could give me the kind of data I am looking for?
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  • hooleylist's avatar
    hooleylist
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    Sep 01, 2009
    You could potentially use a stats profile to collect this information. Joe posted a great example in this article:

     

     

    Custom Reporting with iRules

     

    http://devcentral.f5.com/Default.aspx?tabid=63&articleType=ArticleView&articleId=66

     

     

    You could set up stats profile counters for each of the object types and record the request count and potentially the size using the Content-Length header value (though this wouldn't work for chunked responses).

     

     

    You can also get some data from the profile stats using 'b profile all show all'. This won't be as detailed as what you've mentioned but might provide more info than you've seen before.

     

     

    Maybe someone else can comment on this or external packages that could provide additional metrics.

     

     

    Aaron