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Terje_Gravvold
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Aug 20, 2007

Graphing BigIP v9.x SNMP statistics with Cacti

In conjunction with the latter posts on SNMP mibs and SNMP monitoring on BigIP I want to do my small contribution. A while ago I spent some late hours to dig into the SNMP mibs of BigIP, my goal was to make graphs of BigIP internals in Cacti.

 

 

What's Cacti you wonder (www.cacti.net):

 

acti is a complete network graphing solution designed to harness the power of RRDTool's data storage and graphing functionality. Cacti provides a fast poller, advanced graph templating, multiple data acquisition methods, and user management features out of the box. All of this is wrapped in an intuitive, easy to use interface that makes sense for LAN-sized installations up to complex networks with hundreds of devices.

 

 

In other words, just the ting I need to make graphs on a budget! So what I've made is a set of templates that could easily be imported into Cacti for BigIP graphing fun...

 

 

Heres that the template currently provides:

 

- F5 BigIP - Chassis Temperature

 

- F5 BigIP - Global Connections

 

- F5 BigIP - Global HTTP 2xx/3xx Responses

 

- F5 BigIP - Global HTTP Requests

 

- F5 BigIP - Global HTTP Response Errors

 

- F5 BigIP - Global HTTP Responses

 

- F5 BigIP - Global packets/sec

 

- F5 BigIP - Interface Errors/Drops/Collisions

 

- F5 BigIP - Interface Traffic (bits/sec)

 

- F5 BigIP - SSL TPS

 

- F5 BigIP - TMM memory

 

- F5 BigIP - VS Connection Rate

 

- F5 BigIP - VS Connections

 

- F5 BigIP - VS Traffic (bits/sec)

 

 

And here is the link for those of you that got curious:

 

Click here

 

 

So why do I bother you with this SPAM?

 

1. I want to do my duty and contribute something back to F5 who has "given" me this fantastic product...

 

2. I want to see if I could get some smart brains on this forum to contribute additions to the template to get it complete. I'm, a) to lasy to do the work my selves, b) Don't have the time, your choise. Either way. take a look at Cacti and this template if you have the time...

 

 

Hint: iRules in combination with this template seems temptating to me :-)

 

 

Best regards

 

Terje Gravvold

 

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