Traffic Manager Alarms

To configure Traffic Server to send an email to a specific address whenever an alarm occurs, follow the steps below:

Alarm messages are built into Traffic Server and cannot be changed. However, you can write a script file to execute certain actions when an alarm is signaled. Traffic Server provides a sample script file named example_alarm_bin.sh in the directory which can serve as the basis for your custom alarm scripts.

Viewing Statistics from Traffic Control

You can use traffic_ctl to view statistics about Traffic Server performance and web traffic. In addition to viewing statistics, you can also configure, stop, and restart the Traffic Server system. For additional information, refer to and traffic_ctl. You can view specific information about a Traffic Server node by specifying the variable that corresponds to the statistic you want to see.

where variable is the variable representing the information you want to view. For a list of variables you can specify, refer to traffic_ctl metrics.

For example, the following command displays the total number of completed HTTP requests::