monitoring the F5 SNMP tables

Are you interested in performance data, state data, or both?

 

 

Perf data is relatively easy to collect with almost any SNMP polling engine, the real challenge appears to be deciding what data in useful, what data aggregation gives the granularity needed w/o huge storage costs, and how to mine and display the data.

 

 

For state (up/down type stuff), there are several companies that offer MOM management packs that can collect some of the SNMP data from the Enterprise mibs, but it's not what I'd call polished and robust. If you can hold out until the end of the year, I expect to see some much improved BIGIP monitoring solutions from the big players in Network monitoring.

 

 

J