Why did Zeus decide to create their own language (TrafficScript), rather than reusing one of the many third party languages available – TCL, Perl, JavaScript, etc? Read more...

Each permanent licence that Zeus generates may only be used on one instance of Zeus software at a time. For this reason, license keys are generally bound to a nominated external IP address or a hardware MAC address.

In the case of an IP address license key, the IP address must be raised on the device for the Zeus product to be operational. Typically, the permanent public IP address is used, but other IP addresses are also suitable. Do not nominate an IP address that you plan to use in a Traffic IP group, because this IP address is not permanent and may be raised on any of the traffic managers in the cluster. Read more...

To manage your license keys, access the admin server of your Zeus application via a browser, and navigate to the System > Licenses page of the interface. Read more...

This document describes the version numbering used for Zeus products, and the support lifecycle as versions are superseded by later releases. Read more...

Zeus Traffic Manager and Zeus Load Balancer 6.0r7 was released on 6th May 2010 via customers' download pages and is available for evaluation. Read more...

Zeus Traffic Manager and Zeus Load Balancer 6.0r6 was released on 19th April 2010 via customers' download pages and is available for evaluation. Read more...

Zeus Global Load Balancer 2.1r2 was released on 1st April 2010 via customers' download pages and is now available for evaluation. Read more...

The following code uses Zeus's Control API to retrieve a list of connections recently handled by the traffic manager. It then prints some information about the connections to a particular node. Read more...

Should you ever need to inspect or log POST body data in an HTTP request, the following code snippet may help: Read more...

Zeus Traffic Manager and Zeus Load Balancer 6.0r5 was released on 18th March 2010 via customers' download pages and is available for evaluation. Read more...

Zeus Traffic Manager and Zeus Load Balancer 6.0r4 was released on 10th February 2010 via customers' download pages and is available for evaluation. Read more...

Updates to versions 6.0, 5.1, 5.0 and 4.2 of Zeus Traffic Manager and Zeus Load Balancer were released on 20th January 2009 via customers' download pages and are available for evaluation. Read more...

Zeus Traffic Manager and Zeus Load Balancer 6.0r2 was released on 2nd December 2009 via customers' download pages and is available for evaluation. Read more...

Zeus Traffic Manager and Zeus Load Balancer 6.0r1 was released on 10th November 2009 via customers' download pages and is available for evaluation. Read more...

When Zeus released version 6.0 of our traffic management software, we made a decision to simplify the naming of our various traffic management products: Read more...

Notes

• Zeus Traffic Manager 6.0r7 Release Notes
• Zeus Traffic Manager 6.0 Readme

Getting Started Guides

• Zeus 6.0 Getting Started (software) [pdf]
• Zeus 6.0 Getting Started (virtual appliance) [pdf]
• Zeus 6.0 Getting Started (Amazon EC2) [pdf]
• Zeus 6.0 Getting Started (hardware appliance) [pdf]

Zeus Traffic Manager and Zeus Load Balancer Manuals

• Zeus 6.0 User Manual [pdf]
• Zeus 6.0 TrafficScript Guide [pdf]
• Zeus 6.0 Java Development Guide [pdf]
• Zeus 6.0 Control API manual [pdf]

Zeus Traffic Manager 6.0 was released on October 20^th 2009 via customers' download pages and is available for download and evaluation.

Zeus Traffic Manager 6.0 is a major new release, supporting new platforms (software and virtual appliances), Amazon EC2, and providing many new features. Read more...

Zeus Application Firewall Module version 3.1 should be used with Zeus Traffic Manager version 6.0.

Getting Started Guides

• Zeus AFM 3.1 Getting Started [pdf]

Zeus AFM Manuals

• Zeus AFM 3.1 Manual [pdf]

In this series of articles, I’ve discussed what network-side scripting is, and I’ve described how it can be deployed on three leading traffic management systems to solve two simple problems[1][2]. This final article will cover some advanced applications of network-side scripting. Read more...

In this article, we’ll consider how to inspect HTTP responses and mask out sensitive information within. We’ll compare solutions for three leading traffic management systems – Citrix’s Netscaler VPX, F5’s BigIP Local Traffic Manager and Zeus Traffic Manager. Read more...

Network-side scripting is one of the domains of traffic management devices (what Gartner calls 'ADCs'); this article compares how a simple problem can be solved using the three leading traffic managers – Citrix's Netscaler VPX, F5's BigIP and Zeus Traffic Manager. Read more...

This article, the first in a series of four, explains how "Network Side Scripting" should be another technique in your application toolbox. However, why is "putting code on the network" a good idea? Read more...

ZXTM 5.1r2 was released on 24th August 2009 via customers' download pages and is available for evaluation. Read more...

ZXTM provides a SOAP-based Control API, with an interface clearly defined using a collection of WSDL files. Regrettably, Perl's SOAP::Lite implementation completely ignores WSDL specifications, making the task of communicating with a SOAP service much harder than it should be. This article describes how to call ZXTM's SOAP methods and use SOAP enumerations and structures with SOAP::Lite.

Although we'll concentrate on using SOAP::Lite with ZXTM's Control API, the principles can be applied to other SOAP applications as well. Read more...

Giving a definitive performance statement for our ZXTM software is always a challenge because our customers have an almost infinite choice of platforms to deploy our software on.

We test ZXTM on many different server platforms, and when we see a big speed jump, our Performance Quickref [pdf] gets an update. Intel's Nehalem Xeon processors did just that.

When you configure a pool in ZXTM, you need to specify the nodes that the pool should send traffic to. You can specify the nodes using either IP Address:Port or Name:Port. Read more...

A frequent requirement in TrafficScript is to manage data stored in some sort of table. For example, a user may have a list of redirects they wish to apply, and storing those in a table is generally preferable to hard-coding them into a TrafficScript rule. Read more...

Here's a quick roundup of a few solutions that smart people have built recently with ZXTM!

We've got tweeting, hints and tips for Windows Server installations, 3rd party installation instructions and a strangely hypnotic bunny. Read more...

Zeus are pleased to announce the release of ZXTM Application Firewall Module (ZXTM AFM).

ZXTM AFM is an add-on module for ZXTM software, providing comprehensive web application firewall capabilities. Read more...

The documentation for version 3.0 of ZXTM AFM. Read more...

ZXTM 5.1r1 was released on 16th April 2009 via customers' download pages and is available for evaluation. Read more...

Last updated: February 2010

This matrix is based on Zeus' Software Lifecycle and Support Policy; information on Zeus' product renaming (ZXTM / Zeus Traffic Manager). Read more...