KnowledgeHub Article Index

Zeus KnowledgeHub: News

• Zeus Traffic Manager 6.0r4 released
• Zeus Traffic Manager 6.0r3 released; other supported versions updated
• Zeus modules 2.1 released
• Zeus Traffic Manager 6.0r2 released
• Zeus Traffic Manager 6.0r1 released
• Zeus Traffic Manager 6.0 released
• ZXTM 5.1r2 released
• ZXTM Application Firewall Module released
• ZXTM 5.1r1 released
• ZXTM Plugin for Eclipse
• Zeus Development Licenses
• ZXTM Desktop Edition updated
• ZXTM Global Load Balancer 2.1r1 released
• IP Transparency 1.6 released
• ZXTM 5.1 released
• ZXTM 5.0r1 released
• ZXTM 5.0 released
• IP Transparency 1.5 released
• ZXTM 4.2r2 released
• Zeus-Users.org community
• ZXTM Global Load Balancer 2.1 released
• IP Transparency 1.4 released
• ZXTM 4.2r1 released
• ZXTM 4.2 released
• ZXTM Global Load Balancer
• ZXTM - now running on Windows
• ZXTM 4.1r3 released
• ZXTM 4.1r2 released
• ZXTM Virtual Appliance released
• ZXTM 4.1r1 released
• ZXTM 4.1 Released
• IP Transparency with the ZXTM software
• ZXTM 4.0r2 released
• Announcing the ZXTM Virtual Machine
• How fast can ZXTM go?
• ZXTM 4.0 released
• Zeus are recruiting!
• Introducing the ZXTM KnowledgeHub
• Zeus Wins Double at Industry Awards
• ZXTM 3.1r1 released
• ZXTM 3.1 released
• ZXTM 3.0 released

Zeus KnowledgeHub: Articles

• Administration Best Practices
• iZeus part 2: The "Home" screen
• Multi-hosted IP Addresses with Zeus Software
• Advanced applications of Network-side Scripting
• Using TrafficScript to analyze client TLS Server Name support
• Network Side Scripting - Modifying HTTP responses with Netscaler VPX, F5 BigIP and Zeus Traffic Manager
• Network Side Scripting - Modifying HTTP requests with Netscaler VPX, F5 BigIP and Zeus Traffic Manager
• What is Network Side Scripting?
• New IIS attacks - TrafficScript to the rescue
• Hello this is your Traffic Manager speaking!
• Simply WURFL
• Cache your website - for just a second?
• Making ZXTM more RAD with Jython Extensions
• BIND 9 Exploit in the Wild....
• How can I use Perl's SOAP::Lite with ZXTM's Control API?
• Running ZXTM on Intel Nehalem
• Signing Commercial Email with DKIM and ZXTM
• iZXTM part 1: Login
• Customized Load-Balancing with ZXTM
• Reading data from external files and tables
• Smart posts about ZXTM
• Scala, ZXTM and Java Extensions
• ColdFusion - Managing ZXTMs Content-Cache
• Using Zeus Traffic Manager as a webserver
• Mitigating DDoS attacks with ZXTM
• Dynamic rate shaping of slow applications
• Introducing ZeusBench
• So, you want to be an ‘Application Delivery Architect’?
• Cost-conscious datacenters should look towards software load balancing
• Installing the ZXTM Eclipse Plugin
• Watermarking PDF documents dynamically
• Receiving SMS Alerts from ZXTM
• Using Events to Debug Problems
• Merging RSS feeds using Java Extensions
• ZXTMs like to Tweet Too
• Introducing Event Handling in ZXTM 5.1
• Using ZXTM as an IPv4-IPv6 SIP Gateway
• Dynamic Defence Against Network Attacks (DYANA)
• ZXTM ServerStatus: Java Extensions and the ZXTM Control API
• VMware VI and Dynamic Provisioning with ZXTM
• Building a MySQL load-balancing proxy with TrafficScript
• Getting your website up and running on IPv6 with ZXTM
• ZXTM Forward Proxy and Tunneling SSL
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• XML, TrafficScript™ and Java Extensions
• Being Lazy with Java Extensions
• Authenticating users with Active Directory
• Watermarking Images with Java Extensions
• Introducing Java Extensions
• Announcing ZXTM 5.0
• Getting the best out of Zeus VA and ESX
• On-hold music for your website
• Why ZXTM #3: Faster, more responsive applications
• Scaling Citrix Secure Gateway
• Why Zeus Traffic Manager? #2: Deeper intelligence with TrafficScript
• Why ZXTM? #1: Scalability and Managability
• Managing Website Growth
• Converting Snort Rules to TrafficScript
• Load-balancing an Enterprise Service Bus
• Using ZXTM as a Forward Proxy
• Geographic location detection using TrafficScript
• Managing XML SOAP data with TrafficScript
• Synchronizing SMTP
• Hex-encoded URLs, TrafficScript, and All That
• Detecting and Managing Abusive Referers
• Stop bandwidth theft!
• "Zeus offers load balancing for super-villians"
• Introducing ZXTM Global Load Balancer
• Hiding Application Errors
• How to stop 'login abuse', using TrafficScript
• No more 404 Not Found...?
• The "Contact Us" attack against mail servers
• Copyright 2006?
• Adding meta-tags to a website with ZXTM
• Running a JBOSS cluster with ZXTM
• Detailed response times with TrafficScript
• ZXTM Visio stencils
• ZXTM Spider Catcher
• Virtual Appliances at VMworld 2006
• Overcoming client firewall restrictions with port sharing
• Traffic Valuation and Prioritization
• Using ZXTM to load-balance Windows Media Services
• Setting up NAT on a ZXTM appliance
• How to invalidate cached items in ZXTM's Content Cache
• Make your applications run faster with Zeus Traffic Manager!
• Sun's CEO on the demise of ASICs
• Windows Terminal Services, Session Directory and ZXTM
• Extracting Historical Activity Graphs
• Deploying ZXTM with BEA WebLogic Server
• How to... launch a website at 5am
• Using Google Analytics on your web site - the easy way!
• A perl regexp wrapper for a C custom monitor
• Writing a custom monitor for MySQL in C
• Migrating support.zeus.com
• Generating Mandelbrot sets in TrafficScript
• Embedding RSS data using a TrafficScript rule
• Emacs mode for TrafficScript
• Using the Control API with Java
• Log rotation
• Achieving IP Transparency with ZXTM
• Sending custom error pages
• What's new in ZXTM 4.0?
• Making the most of Content Caching
• User Interface Demonstrations
• Tuning ZXTM for maximum performance
• What's the best way to integrate Apache with ZXTM?
• ZXTM Architecture
• Integrating Google Search
• Masking data (e.g. social security numbers) in HTTP responses
• Using MRTG to monitor ZXTM
• What to do when your apps run slow?
• ZXTM just got twice as fast...
• ZXTM and ZXTM LB
• Using ZXTM as a transparent proxy
• RuleBuilder and TrafficScript comparison
• TrafficCluster Fault Tolerance
• TrafficScript examples: Fixing broken websites...
• Scripting your configuration changes
• Virtual hosting FTP services

Zeus KnowledgeHub: Code Samples

• Measuring The Impact Of A Faster Website.
• List running Virtual Servers using Scala
• Apache Commons Logging
• Ruby and SOAP Revisited
• Merging RSS feeds using Java Extensions
• Managing arrays in TrafficScript
• Writing TrafficScript functions in Java
• Accessing ZXTM’s Control API from Java
• Reading Response Data
• Prompting for Authentication
• "Hello, World!" Java Extension
• Overview
• Subroutines
• List running Virtual Servers using Ruby and SOAP
• Deleting Session Persistence records
• Using ZXTM as a Forward Proxy
• ZXTM Spider Catcher
• TrafficScript fact sheet
• Clearing ZXTM's Content Cache
• How do I restrict my website to certain IP ranges?
• Re-writing a client request from http:// to https://
• Transparently redirecting clients from http://domain.com/ to http://www.domain.com/
• Using ZXTM with htaccess authentication
• POP3 Stress Relief
• Logging slow connections
• Rewriting responses with "Generic Client First" and "Generic Server First" protocols
• Using low-bandwidth content during extreme load
• Emacs mode for TrafficScript
• Handling binary protocols
• Spoofing IP addresses when using web proxies
• List running Virtual Servers using PHP5
• List running Virtual Servers using Python and SOAPpy
• List running Virtual Servers using Java
• List running Virtual Servers using C#
• List running Virtual Servers using Perl
• String manipulation
• How does TrafficScript work?
• Routing requests based on the content of XML fields
• An introduction to TrafficScript
• Basic syntax
• Variables and Types
• if-then-else tests
• Loops
• Rules processing and flow control
• Setting an HTTP response header
• Inspecting HTTP request parameters
• Rewriting HTTP requests
• Rewriting HTTP responses
• Controlling session persistence
• Monitoring the response time of slow services
• Selective bandwidth management
• Querying an external datasource

Zeus KnowledgeHub: Frequently Asked Questions

• Administration Best Practices
• How do I configure my Zeus instance on EC2?
• Whatever happened to ZXTM?
• Do I need a license key to use a Zeus AMI on EC2?
• How do I sign up to use Zeus AMIs on EC2?
• How do I launch a new Zeus instance using Amazon's command line tools?
• How do I upgrade ZXTM AFM 3.0 to Zeus Application Firewall Module 3.1?
• What are the product codes, AMI IDs and manifest names for Zeus on EC2?
• Why can't users connect to my multi-hosted IPs?
• CLI won't start, with XML Parser errors
• How do I disable tcp fusion on OpenSolaris 2009.6
• License Key Bandwidth Limits
• Using DNS names when configuring Pools
• How do I cluster ZXTM AFM 3.0?
• Tuning Linux networking
• ZXTM Usage Tracking information
• How do I configure ZXTM to use the UltraSPARC T2 Crypto routines?
• How do I import ZXTM VA into VMware ESX 3.5
• How do I configure ZXTM with Firefox 3?
• How do I run my ZXTMs in Active-Active mode?
• Why am I having startup issues on SLES?
• How do I connect ZXTM software to external SSL hardware?
• How do I connect a ZXTM Appliance to an nCipher NetHSM?
• How do I pass the client's IP address to my servers in an HTTP header?
• When does ZXTM send email alerts and SNMP traps?
• How do I upgrade a Virtual or Hardware Appliance to a later version of Zeus Traffic Manager?
• How do I perform a memory test ?
• Server-first and Client-first Protocols
• SSL offloading for JBOSS and Tomcat servers.
• Why doesn't failover work properly with my Cisco hardware?
• How many persistent sessions can ZXTM handle?
• Is ZXTM affected by the US Energy Policy Act?
• How do I get ZXTM system information through SNMP?
• What effect does ZXTM's connection processing have on CPU usage?
• TrafficScript fact sheet
• How do I perform an unattended installation?
• I've successfully upgraded to 4.1, but get 'failed to join cluster' errors.
• Importing encrypted SSL certificates into ZXTM
• What does the error 'Channel 1 is not a LAN channel' mean?
• What does the 'use_prefix has been deprecated' error mean (ZXTM Control API)
• IP Spoofing protection may cause ZXTM Appliance to drop valid traffic
• How do I upgrade an appliance from ZXTM 4.0?
• How do I create a chained SSL certificate?
• Why is ZXTM pinging my back-ends when I don't have a PING health monitor attached?
• Microsoft Exchange and ZXTM :: Delivering a Secure Mobile Solution
• Integrating ZXTM with BEA Weblogic's T3 protocol.
• Why am I still seeing new connections connecting to my draining node(s)?
• I'm running FreeBSD -- do you have any tuning recommendations?
• How does Bandwidth Management work in ZXTM?
• How do I configure ZXTM with Internet Explorer 7?
• How does the perceptive algorithm ramp up the load on new servers in a pool?
• Configuring the SSL and TLS connections allowed by ZXTM
• How do I import certificates exported from Windows Server into ZXTM?
• TCP Checksum errors
• How do I use an nCipher nFast Ultra card with ZXTM?
• Zeus have provided me with my license key, yet ZXTM keeps rejecting it.
• I've run the ZXTM installer, but I can't get past the license agreement page.
• I'm running GNU/Linux: Why is ZXTM using most of my server's physical memory?
• Solaris 10 on x86-64 Systems May Lose Track of Time on DST Change
• What are the different license key options?
• How do I change the IP address my license key is bound to?
• Preserving the Client IP address to iPlanet/SunONE/Sun Java System Web Server servers and Applications
• Preserving the Client IP address to Apache servers and Applications
• How do I upgrade my Zeus Traffic Manager software?
• Shared library problems on Solaris 8 and 9
• ZXTM FD fix patch
• How to recompile a FreeBSD kernel with SSE support
• Do I need to have more than one network card?
• Bandwidth Managment Requirements
• How many back-end servers can ZXTM address?
• How many distinct ports can I manage?
• Can I run SPECweb or other benchmarks through ZXTM?
• What sources of information are available?
• ZXTM seems to keep lots of HTTP connections open. Why is this?
• My web site or service isn't working - how can I tell if it is ZXTM that is at fault?
• When I plug a ZXTM in, why does it takes so long for it to come back into use?
• I'm familiar with other Zeus products - what do I need to know about ZXTM?
• What is $ZEUSHOME?
• Can ZXTM provide fault tolerance if a back-end server fails whilst sending data?
• How can I increase the number of connections that ZXTM can handle?
• How do File Descriptors affect ZXTM?
• What ZXTM settings are not exposed in the Admin Interface?
• ZXTM performance tuning

Zeus KnowledgeHub: Product Documentation

• Zeus Traffic Manager 6.0 Documentation
• Zeus Application Firewall Module 3.1 Documentation
• ZXTM AFM 3.0 Documentation
• ZXTM GLB 2.1r1 Manual and Release Notes
• Events in ZXTM
• ZXTM 5.1 Documentation
• ZXTM 5.0 Documentation
• ZXTM GLB 2.1 Manual and Release Notes
• ZXTM 4.2 User Manual
• ZXTM 4.2 Release Notes
• ZXTM 4.2 Getting Started Guide (appliance)
• ZXTM 4.2 Getting Started Guide (software)
• ZXTM 4.2 Getting Started (Virtual Appliance)
• ZXTM 4.2 TrafficScript Manual
• ZXTM 4.2 Control API Manual
• ZXTM GLB 2.0 Manual and Release Notes
• ZXTM 4.1 Getting Started (Virtual Appliance)
• ZXTM 4.1 Release Notes
• ZXTM 4.1 Getting Started Guide (software)
• ZXTM 4.1 Getting Started Guide (appliance)
• ZXTM 4.1 User Manual
• ZXTM 4.1 TrafficScript Manual
• ZXTM 4.1 Control API Manual
• IP Transparency Module for ZXTM - Installation Guide
• ZXTM 4.0r2 README and RELEASE_NOTES
• ZXTM 4.0 Getting Started Guide
• ZXTM 4.0 User Manual
• ZXTM 4.0 TrafficScript Manual
• ZXTM 4.0 Control API Manual
• Migrating from Zeus Load Balancer to ZXTM
• ZXTM Network Planning
• ZXTM 3.1 README and RELEASE_NOTES
• ZXTM 3.1 Getting Started guide
• ZXTM 3.1 User Manual
• ZXTM 3.1 TrafficScript Manual

Zeus Desktop Edition

• Desktop Edition - FAQs
• Using your Zeus Desktop Edition
• Installing and running the ZXTM Desktop Edition
• Download the Zeus Desktop Edition
• Zeus Desktop Edition