13548 - How to determine the number of ephemeral ports in use on virtual traffic manager (vTM)?

This article provides information how to determine the number of ephemeral ports in use on the vTM.

We can discover how many ephemeral ports are in use for all IP pairs on the device with the following steps. 

1. Collect a TSR from the device(s) in quest.  A TSR can be collected through the web UI > Diagnose > Technical Support > Manage Technical support reports > Generate TSR.   Or, the same can be accomplished with the command line using a command similar to the following:  $ZEUSHOME/zxtm/bin/support-report --all-logs /tmp/node_date_time
2. Attach the resulting .tgz file to the case. 
3. Navigate to the "support" directory within the uncompressed TSR.
4. Run the following command to discover the total number of ephemeral ports for each IP pair. 

$ cat sysctl.txt | grep net.ipv4.ip_local_port_range
net.ipv4.ip_local_port_range = 1024     65535

5. Run the following command to determine the number of ephemeral ports in use for each IP pair communicating through the vTM: 

$ cat networking.txt | tr ':' ' ' | awk '$1 ~ /tcp/ && $2 ~ /^(ESTAB|FIN|TIME)/ 
{print $5" "$7":"$8;}' | sort | uniq -c | sort -rn | head -20
  35144 172.31.3.3 172.31.10.213:https
  24325 172.31.3.3 172.31.10.211:https
  24013 172.31.3.3 172.31.10.212:https
    228 172.31.3.3 172.31.10.140:https
    220 172.31.3.3 172.31.10.142:https
    208 172.31.3.3 172.31.10.141:https