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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">I put together a cfgmaker-ish script that will generate per-farm connection & bandwidth graph targets for use in polling F5 load balancers.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">A direct link to the script is </FONT><A HREF="http://mrtg.gvolk.com/f5lb-cfgmaker.zip"><U><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">http://mrtg.gvolk.com/f5lb-cfgmaker.zip</FONT></U></A>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">The following text is contained in the readme:</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">###</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">### f5lb-cfgmaker.pl - A perl script that interrogates F5 load balancers</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">### and generates MRTG config targets for overall system stats as well</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">### as per-farm connection & bandwidth graph targets.</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">###</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">### Greg Volk 20091129</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">###</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">### The zipfile that this script came with should have included a</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">### cfgmaker template file called host-f5-lb.template. You will need</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">### to make this template file available to the script. You can</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">### define the dir that the template file goes into by modifying the</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">### $htemplate var at the top of the script.</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">###</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">### There are also some variables pointing to lib dirs for SNMP_util and the</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">### cfgmaker script that you may need to modify.</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">###</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">### This program was based off of OIDs found in the F5 mib files</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">### and some generic linux stats (host-resources?) mib files.</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">###</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">### The invocation syntax is ./f5lb-cfgmaker.pl <community>@<device> > <filename></FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">### ./f5lb-cfgmaker.pl public@loadbalancer > loadbalancer.cfg</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">###</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">###</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">### This script is licensed under the GNU GPL. For more information, please</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">### see </FONT><A HREF="http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html"><U><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html</FONT></U></A><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">.</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">###</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">### Newer/older/different versions might be available at </FONT><A HREF="http://mrtg.gvolk.com"><U><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">http://mrtg.gvolk.com</FONT></U></A>
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