F5 BIG-IP LTM (v9)

1. Unzip the download
2. Via cacti web console, click on “Import Templates” and import the file “cacti_host_template_*.xml”
3. Via scp or other tool, copy the files “resource/snmp_queries/*.xml” into directory ”<path_cacti>/resource/snmp_queries/”
4. Assign the new host template to new devices and create new graphs

1. F5 BigIP - Global - Client Connection Rate
2. F5 BigIP - Global - Client Connections
3. F5 BigIP - Global - Client Packets
4. F5 BigIP - Global - Client Traffic (bits/sec)
5. F5 BigIP - Global - Host Memory
6. F5 BigIP - Global - HTTP Requests per Version
7. F5 BigIP - Global - HTTP Requests per Method
8. F5 BigIP - Global - HTTP Requests per Ramcache Action
9. F5 BigIP - Global - HTTP Responses per Bucket Size
10. F5 BigIP - Global - HTTP Responses per Version
11. F5 BigIP - Global - HTTP Responses per Status Code (2xx/3xx)
12. F5 BigIP - Global - HTTP Responses per Status Code (2xx/3xx/4xx/5xx)
13. F5 BigIP - Global - HTTP Responses per Status Code (4xx/5xx)
14. F5 BigIP - Global - Memory Usage
15. F5 BigIP - Global - Server Connection Rate
16. F5 BigIP - Global - Server Connections
17. F5 BigIP - Global - Server Packets
18. F5 BigIP - Global - Server Traffic (bits/sec)
19. F5 BigIP - Global - SSL Transactions
20. F5 BigIP - Global - TM CPU Usage
21. ucd/net - CPU Usage (enhanced)
22. ucd/net - Load Average (enhanced)
23. ucd/net - Memory Usage (enhanced)
24. ucd/net - TCP Counters
25. ucd/net - TCP Current Established
26. ucd/net - Uptime

1. F5 BigIP - Chassis Fan
2. F5 BigIP - Chassis Temperature
3. F5 BigIP - CPU Physical Statistics
4. F5 BigIP - Interface Statistics
5. F5 BigIP - MultiHost CPU Statistics
6. F5 BigIP - Pool Member Statistics (ltmPoolMemberStatTable)
7. F5 BigIP - Pool Statistics (ltmPoolEntry)
8. F5 BigIP - Pool Statistics (ltmPoolStatEntry)
9. F5 BigIP - TMM Statistics
10. F5 BigIP - VS Statistics
11. SNMP - Interface Statistics

This template has been tested with the following versions:

• F5 BIG-IP LTM 6400 software 9.4.8 Build 396.1 Hotfix HF3

• Interface Statistics Graph: Management interface (mgt) is sometime unavailable because it is not listed F5 OIDs (.1.3.6.1.4.1.3375.2.1.2.4.4.3.1.1).
• HTTP request per Method: sysHttpStatGetReqs (.1.3.6.1.4.1.3375.2.1.1.2.4.7.0) doesn't seem to be incremented for all HTTP GET requests (ie: “HTTP 304” doesn't increment the get counter). However this problem doesn't exist with sysHttpStatNumberReqs(.1.3.6.1.4.1.3375.2.1.1.2.4.7.0) which cause empty spaces in the graph.

This template is based on F5_BigIP_v9-Host_Template-rev_7.zip from Cacti's Forum. Special thanks to Terje Gravvold for the first original template and to citizen_elah, BSOD2600, matibut14, hamish (and maybe others) for all the contributions. From this base, I've added dozens of new graph templates and made many modifications in an attempt to standardize the whole template. Later (2010-09-06), I saw interesting graph templates on F5 DevCentral that have inspired to create new graph templates (HTTP Requests/Responses per Version) and a new data query (ltmPoolStatEntry). Please see the references below:

• http://forums.cacti.net/about17030.html
• http://forums.cacti.net/about12773.html
• http://devcentral.f5.com/Tutorials/TechTips/tabid/63/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/136/Graphing-your-F5-LTM-Environment-with-Cacti.aspx
• http://devcentral.f5.com/wiki/default.aspx/AdvDesignConfig/CactiF5HostTemplate.html