Returning the bandwidth usage for an interface

Assuming you mean iControl, ye there is.. If you pull the interface counters you can calculate the bandwidth over time. The code to pull the interface counters is something like the one below

 

 

 
   my $Interface = SOAP::Lite 
        -> uri('urn:iControl:Networking/Interfaces') 
        -> proxy("$sProtocol://$icUser:$icPass\@$icServer:$icPort/iControl/iControlPortal.cgi", cookie_jar => $cookieJar); 
  
   HNM (This bit just reads a list of interfaces from a DB) 
   $sql_query{sel_nt_4stat}->execute($devID); 
   while ( my $row = $sql_query{sel_nt_4stat}->fetchrow_hashref()) { 
     dbprint "getNetworkStats: adding interface $row->{name}\n"; 
     push(@nList, $row->{name}); 
   } 
  
   my $soapResponse = $Interface->get_statistics(SOAP::Data->name(interfaces => [@nList])); 
   my ($status, $text)=&checkResponse($soapResponse); 
   $StatList = $soapResponse->result; 
 

 

 

H

Thanks for the reply.

 

Actually I'm not familiar with iControl, but looks like it's an open API which I can work with the different kinds of language.

 

If possbile can you give me more info in details regarding your code?

 

 

Thanks again.

Sun, iControl is a web service API to manage BIG-IP devices. We supply the WSDL description files for those services for you to integrate into your client language specific toolkit. For several languages, we've provided libraries that make that step easier. We have library support for .Net, Java, and Python at this time. Using SOAP::Lite in perl if the route we support for perl at this point.

 

 

Let me know if you have any more specific questions or need pointers for specific language support.

 

 

-Joe