Monitoring/Management

DevCentral Weekly Roundup Episode 50 - Dump my BIG-IP

DevCentral Weekly Podcast — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 22:18:02 GMT

Welcome to the FIFTIETH (WooHoo) edition of the DevCentral Weekly Roundtable Podcast! A weekly recap of the interesting things that have been going on within the DevCentral community.

Hosts: Deb Allen, Don Mac Vittie, and Joe Pruitt.

In this weeks podcast:

In the tech tips this week, Deb is Persisting SSL, Joe and Don are dumping Http Statistics and iRules respectively.
Deb's blogging about Monitoring WebSphere, Joe highlights Symphoniq TrueView ADC Edition, and Don is comparing Hits to Hits.
In the wikis, check out LB::reselect, iRules 101, MSM Bypass, PsGlobalHttpStats, and ClientAuthUsingHTMLForms.
In the forums, we have requests for an iControl demo site, more "b conn delete" requests, and MSM customization.
We had an interview with Joe Hsy from Symphoniq on the interview channel and the post of the week was on Graceful Server Connection Draining - watch this to see Joe's cube.
And the team gives a fond farewell to our own Deb who is moving on and taking on the task of helping out our solutions team on our AskF5 project. We'll miss you Deb - Don't be a stranger!

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Technorati Tags: F5, DevCentral, SSL VPN, Http, iRules 101, WebSphere, Symphoniq, TrueView, MSM, iControl 101, Farewell, Joe Pruitt, Deb Allen, Don Mac Vittie

DevCentral Weekly Roundup Episode 49 - The Weather Report

DevCentral Weekly Podcast — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 22:26:42 GMT

Welcome to the forty ninth edition of the DevCentral Weekly Roundtable Podcast! A weekly recap of the interesting things that have been going on within the DevCentral community.

Hosts: Deb Allen, Don Mac Vittie, and Joe Pruitt.

In this weeks podcast:

Deb is replacing WebSphere Apache Plugins with iRules and Joe is archiving his configurations.
In the blogs, Don is eating his alphabet soup with ARX and LTM; Deb is CMP'ing her classes; and Dan is Meeting the Press.
In the forums, Deb's trying to help NAT to route to unroutable networks as well as trying to see if LTM+GTM=LC is a true statement; and Don is commenting on File Transfer Limits.
In the Wikis, check out the updates for log and STREAM::expression as well as the CMP enabled EncryptingCookie sample.
Deb and Colin put out another great Post of the Week on SQL Server Triggered Failover.
And Joe gives a quick recap on the recent F5 Partner Conference in New Orleans.

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Technorati Tags: F5, DevCentral, WebSphere, Apache, iRules 101, CMP, Alphabet Soup, ARX, LTM, GTM, LC, Cookie Encryption, SQL Server, Partner Conference, New Orleans, Joe Pruitt, Deb Allen, Don Mac Vittie

DevCentral Weekly Roundup Episode 48 - Un-Nested Conditionals

DevCentral Weekly Podcast — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 22:59:56 GMT

Welcome to the forty eighth edition of the DevCentral Weekly Roundtable Podcast! A weekly recap of the interesting things that have been going on within the DevCentral community.

Hosts: Colin Walker, Deb Allen, Don Mac Vittie, and Joe Pruitt.

In this weeks podcast:

Colin is Nesting Conditionals while Joe is Un-Nesting them and Deb is building custom traps.
Joe and Colin had a interview with Jason Hoffman from Joyent and then Colin blogged about the tacos. Lori then managed to get into a heated conversation with the creator of ModSecurity.
In the forums, Joe talks about rate statistics and the updated Java iControl library and Deb discussed the LTM last hop feature and question on LTM wildcard vips. The topic of hopping bunnies then came up.
In the wiki, hoolio is at a tear with STREAM::match and STREAM::expression and Joe CodeShared his PsRateShapeStatistics tech tip.
And finally, we put to rest the question of minimizing your hops with Deb and Colin's Post of the Week.

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Technorati Tags: F5, DevCentral, iRules, iControl, ModSecurity, Joyent, Java, LTM, Steam, Post of the Week, Joe Pruitt, Deb Allen, Colin Walker, Don Mac Vittie

DevCentral Weekly Roundup Episode 47 - Justifying Our Existence

DevCentral Weekly Podcast — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 22:22:51 GMT

Welcome to the forty seventh edition of the DevCentral Weekly Roundtable Podcast! A weekly recap of the interesting things that have been going on within the DevCentral community.

Hosts: Colin Walker, Don Mac Vittie, and Joe Pruitt.

In this weeks podcast:

This week, Don was dumping nodes and Joe was gracefully shutting them down while Jeff is off justifying our existence.
In the blogs Don talks about storage and where we go from here and Joe discusses Joyent helping LinkedIn scale their BumperSticker Facebook app to 1 billion page views per month.
In the forums this week, we have questions on Removing iRules, Graceful Server Stop, License for iControl.jar, and Renaming Files in transit.
Joe added the PsPoolMemberControl CodeShare sample and Don updated the LocalLB::Rule::delete_rule() documentation.
We end things up talking about Deb's latest Post of the Week on Application Health Monitors on alternate ports.

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Technorati Tags: F5, DevCentral, Pool Member, Storage, Joyent, LinkedIn, iRules, iControl, CodeShare, Health Monitors, Joe Pruitt, Don Mac Vittie, Colin Walker

DevCentral Weekly Roundup Episode 41 - Super Secret Stuff

DevCentral Weekly Podcast — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 22:06:23 GMT

Joe covers a bunch of forum posts surrounding the iRule Editor.
Don talks about his new super secret labs project: the Redirector that will be released tomorrow.
Deb plays both sides of the BIG-IP coin with topics on Passive Monitoring with LTM and Selective Persistence with GTM.
Joe's tech tip this week was on managing Self IP addresses.
Joe seeks help on his version of the ABC Car Word Game - he needs a networking letter for Y.
In the POTW this week, Deb and Colin have been disposing their content.
And Lori is blogging us all to shame with security impacts of API deprecation, blogging 101, and calculating twitter costs.

DevCentral Weekly Roundup Episode 40 - Skinning the Cat

DevCentral Weekly Podcast — Thu, 29 May 2008 22:07:49 GMT

# Don talks about Creating Virtuals Simplified and Deb gives guidance on building custom WebAccelerator policies.
# In the blogs, Colin is 20LoL'ing again and looking into the future of media over broadband. With all the talk of network bandwidth, Deb is reminded of the 300 baud club.
# Joe points out posts about PowerGUI and Partition lists in the iControl forums and the team discusses the many ways to skin a cat with the stripping data thread.
# The Wikis continue to see traffic with major enhancements to the Credit Card Scrubber iRule as well as the new RTSP commands that are now officially released.
# Things round up with a discussion of the Post of the Week topic on Layered App Monitoring (soon to be shot with puppets) and Don's latest DC Newsletter.

DevCentral Weekly Roundup Episode 36 - Colin gets a new project

DevCentral Weekly Podcast — Thu, 01 May 2008 22:27:50 GMT

In the tech tips this week, Joe goes over Data Groups with iControl, Deb is Validating Your Logic, and Don is Creating Virtuals, the easy way.
Joe continued his Networking ABC's with O, P, Q, and R. Jeff talks about Virtualization, advice you can use, as well as CLI's vs. API's. And Don finishes off the blog coverage with SpamBOTs and DNS lookups with a bit of 90's flashback thrown in for good measure.
Several DNS focused Samples were added to the CodeShare this week along with updates to the iControl DBVariable interface and a sample syslog-ng configuration for setting up email.
In the forums, Joe talks about Pool Member State and the infamous 3-way-GUI-toggle, as well as issuing syslog commands from iControl. Deb rounds it off with a little DNS on GTM.
The DCTVPOTW continues this week with a whiteboard session on VIP Bounceback and server callbacks.
Jeff and Joe finish things off with a little talk about Interop and site upgrades respectively.

DevCentral Weekly Roundup Episode 20 - 50 Percent

DevCentral Team — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 21:23:14 GMT

Joe opens things up by discussing his FTP Proxy Tech tip and his subsequent journey into the realms of the Wumpus (believed to be the first game written in the iRule language).
Warren then gives a rundown on F5's direction on network management. He discusses past products including SEE-IT, ISMan, and Enterprise Manager (EM) and where we are going with our future product ControlPoint (Joe wonders whey it wasn't named "CP"). He discusses features like network maps, capacity planning, custom reporting, and workflow. Warren then defines how we solve the "Mean Time to Innocence(TM)" problem among other frequently reported customer issues regarding management.
If you would like more info on ControlPoint, contact Warren Talbot via old fashioned email at w.talbot-at-f5-dot-com (he's not hip to the whole Skype thing yet - but don't worry, we'll get him there...).