For cool things that don't use ZXTM, try elsewhere, but for strange and unlikely ways to use ZXTM, or just 'I never knew how to do that' moments, here's a list:
- Generating Mandelbrot sets in TrafficScript
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Here's a fun example of the power of ZXTM's TrafficScript language. While it is clearly not very useful as a tool for your busy e-commerce sites, hopefully it will get you thinking about the possibilities of TrafficScript!
- Emacs mode for TrafficScript
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To fuel the religious arguments about which editor is best, here's syntax highlighting tricks for Emacs, GEdit, vi, Nedit and BBedit.
- Using MRTG to monitor ZXTM
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MRTG is a graphing tool that can be used to monitor network services and draw graphs showing traffic trends. It can easily be integrated with ZXTM to allow monitoring of traffic to a site.
- Extracting Historical Activity Graphs
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ZXTM has built in support for historical activity graphs for Virtual Servers, Pools and Nodes. You can view these graphs on the Activity -> Historical Activity page in the Admin interface. This article describes a Perl script that can download the graphs - for a NOC dashboard for example.
- ZXTM Visio stencils
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If you use Microsoft Visio to draw your network diagrams, you may find this Visio stencil useful. It contains pictures of Zeus' ZXTM appliances, as well as some handy rack-mount servers and isometric arrows, in the same style as Microsoft's 3D server stencils.
