Gain visibility Into Your BIG-IP delivered Web Applications With Symphoniq

Webinar Details Date: Thursday Oct 16th, 2008Time: 9AM PST, 12PM ESTDuration: 45 minutesFeatured Speakers:Peter MurrayTechnical Marketing ManagerF5 NetworksHon WongCEOSymphoniq IT departments purchase F5’s BIG-IP Application Delivery Controllers (ADCs) to increase their Web Application performance. Because of the complexity of the applications being accelerated, finding an optimal ADC configuration requires visibility into the impact the appliance has on both the end user and the network. Symphoniq has created a Web Application performance monitoring solution based on our TRUE (The Real User Experience) technology. An industry first, the solution integrates tightly with F5’s powerful iRules...

Crack open the books, it's iRule time

Hot off the presses! I just received an email from Beth, our Director of World Wide Customer Education, that starting now registration is open for a brand spanking new "Configuring BIG-IP V9.x With iRules" course offered by F5 Global Training - WOOHOO! This three-day course gives networking professionals an understanding of how to configure a BIG-IP v9 system with iRules. The course builds on the foundation of the BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) Essentials course, demonstrating how to logically plan and write iRules to help monitor and manage common tasks involved with processing traffic on the BIG-IP. Course...

Socializing the Network

A while ago I wrote a little app that listened to the BIG-IP for status change notifications and logged them to disk.  I showed this to Robert Scoble and the Channel 9 crew when they visited the F5 headquarters and he asked if he could get those results in his RSS reader.  I answered that by writing the BigipBlogging sample that I submitted to the DevCentral CodeShare I'm an early adopter in most web based tools so naturally I was a early member on Twitter.  Last year I blogged about an extension to the original program that...

Japanese Marketing - BIG-IP

Here's another post on Japanese Marketing, F5 Style.  I've talked about iRules, TMOS, and FirePass and for today I've got our very own BIG-IP.  As I mentioned in my previous posts, since I don't speak Japanese, the only way I can interpret this marketing sheet is by the graphics on it.  So, again, I'll give you my view on what the message is: The guy in this photo is not really a guy at all, he's a puppet since there is no bottom half to his body. The left picture shows him with a blue forehead...

F5 Enterprise Manager v1.6.0 released

Just got news from the product teams that Enterprise Manager has been released.  As if you didn't know what EM is or does, here's the marketing blurb: Enterprise Manager is a centralized device-management appliance that significantly lowers the cost and complexity of managing F5 devices. With Enterprise Manager, you can decrease day-to-day operational errors and reduce the time to complete deployment. Your return on investment can be quickly calculated by the hours saved through significantly reduced deployment times and quick recovery from operational errors. Here's the list of new features that were added in the upcoming v1.6.0...

GlassFish and BIG-IP sitting in a tree...

  For those who haven't heard of Sun's GlassFish project, instead of trying to describe it myself, I'll reprint the overview from their dev site. GlassFish is a free, open source application server which implements the newest features in the Java EE 5 platform. The Java EE 5 platform includes the latest versions of technologies such as such as JavaServer Pages(JSP) 2.1, JavaServer Faces(JSF) 1.2, Servlet 2.5, Enterprise JavaBeans 3.0, Java API for Web Services(JAX-WS) 2.0, Java Architecture for XML Binding(JAXB) 2.0, Web Services Metadata for the Java Platform 1.0, and many other new  technologies.  I personally haven't used GlassFish yet, but...

ADC is Live

  After many hours of hard work by the newest member of our team, The F5 DevCentral Advanced Design and Config Wiki went live this morning!  To quote the site: F5 products make it possible for you to build and manage very complex networks addressing an endless variety of application delivery and business requirements. This wiki is intended to support those complexities by providing samples of profiles, monitors, templates and common traffic management architectures, explaining the features required to implement them, and giving you tips on how to configure our products to match your application delivery requirements. Enjoy everyone, and GREAT job Deb! -Joe   Technorati Tags:...

The network is Twittering

One of the major social aspects of Mix this year was interacting with everyone via Twitter.  For those who haven't heard about it (where have you been), here's an excerpt from it's Wikipedia page: Twitter is a social networking and micro-blogging service that allows users to send "updates" (text-based posts, up to 140 characters long) via SMS, instant messaging, the Twitter website, or an application such as Twitterrific. Twitter was founded in October 2006 by San Francisco start-up company Obvious Corp. Updates are displayed on the user's profile page and also instantly delivered to other users who have signed up to receive...

F5 making mongrels better with a Side of Mayo

Browsing through my Technorati feeds, I came across Joyent's weblog where David Young has a Podcast  "Side of Mayo" where he talks about their use of F5 products. Why does Joyent use F5 load balancers? How F5 load balancers help us to make mongrels better F5 iRules You'll have to listen to find out how the mongrels fit in B-).     Technorati tags: BIG-IP, F5, iRules [Listening to: Sadhana - Steve Stevens by Various Artists from the album Sounds of Wood & Steel] -Joe