Using your Zeus Desktop Edition

Here are a number of worked examples to familiarize yourself with Zeus Traffic Manager. The previous article in this series - Installing and running the Zeus Desktop Edition - explains how to download, install and run the Zeus Desktop Edition.

Using the Zeus Desktop Edition - Part 1
Part 1 contains a number of worked examples that illustrate how to use Zeus Load Balancer and Zeus Traffic Manager, to help you learn the basics of the Zeus software:

  1. Simple Load Balancing
  2. Connection Draining
  3. Rewriting Requests
  4. Routing Requests
  5. The Activity Monitor
  6. Introduction to TrafficScript
  7. Managing SSL Traffic

The exercises should take about 45 minutes to complete.

Using the Zeus Desktop Edition - Part 2
Part 2 contains worked examples that illustrate the advanced features of Zeus Traffic Manager. It assumes that you are familiar with Zeus Traffic Manager, and know how to configure basic services and rules.

  1. Manipulating Response Data
  2. Detecting and retrying errors
  3. More Advanced Response Rewriting
  4. Managing Content Caching
  5. Using Service Level Monitoring
  6. Intelligent Session Persistence
  7. Request Rate Shaping
  8. Managing Bandwidth
  9. Introduction to Java Extensions

The exercises should take about 90 minutes to complete, but you can dip in and select the ones you are most interested in.

Owen Garrett [Zeus Dev Team] 21 May 2007 Bookmark with del.icio.us Post this article to Digg Post this article to reddit Post this article to Facebook Tweet this article  

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