Monitoring/management

DC Post of the Week - Graceful Server Connection Draining

DevCentral TV — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 19:39:41 GMT

In this week’s Post of the Week, Joe talks about using iControl to automate the process of bleeding off connections from a server, then bringing it all the way down once all connections have closed. Thanks to poster nevot from Spain for a great question demonstrating how iControl can help automate a common change control function.

BTW, sorry for the background noise. Remind me to shut down my BIG-IP next time B-).

Here's a link to the post: iControl graceful stop node.

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DC Post of the Week - Application Health Monitors: Alternate Ports

DevCentral TV — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 08:08:06 GMT

In this week’s Post of the Week, Deb Allen talks about a forum post by user sojourner9 regarding configuring an application health monitor to check a port besides the one configured for a pool member.

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DC Post of the Week - Application Health Monitors : Response Strings

DevCentral TV — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 16:04:13 GMT

In this week’s Post of the Week, Deb Allen talks about a forum post by DevCentral user michael.trott about setting up an appropriate Response string to mark a server down if it returns a “200 OK” along with a detailed error page.

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Talking pyControl with Matt Cauthorn

DevCentral TV — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 21:52:46 GMT

The DevCentral Labs pyControl project has received overwhelmingly enthusiastic response from the DevCentral community. DevCentral's Deb Allen and Colin Walker get together with FSE and pyControl co-developer Matt Cauthorn to talk about what it is and why you need it.

And if you haven't already seen them, make sure to check out the following pyControl video tutorials by Matt:

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VIPRION - Unboxed

DevCentral TV — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 05:00:43 GMT

DevCentral's own Colin Walker (with Joe behind the camera) gets a first hand look at unboxing an "almost" brand spanking new VIPRION. In case you hadn't heard, VIPRION is F5's newly announced chassis-based application delivery controller.
With the help of F5's Product Marketing Manager Mike Krasnow, the two haul this chassis out of the packing materials and gives us the scoop on the components and what makes this product so incredibly unique.

411: Steve Morenzoni talks about how a fully digital hospital makes use of F5 gear

DevCentral TV — Thu, 10 Aug 2006 21:52:00 GMT

A Senior Network Engineer stops by to chat with us about how F5 products help their large scale network to support their entirely digital Hospital setup.