big-ip

WCF, Metadata and BIGIP - Can I force the correct url for the WSDL items?

We have a WCF service hosted on ServerA which is a server with no-direct Internet access and has a non-Internet routable IP address. The service is fronted by BIGIP which handles SSL encryption and decryption and forwards the unencrypted request to ServerA (at the moment it does NOT actually do any load balancing, but that is likely t...

Reporting a WCF application's status to F5's Big IP products

In a Windows Server 2003 environment with a self hosted .Net 3.5/WCF application, how can an application report its status to a BigIP Local Traffic Manager? Example: One of my services errors. My custom WCF application hosting software (written because Windows Server 2008 is not yet available and I'm using WCF TCP bindings) detects thi...

Can I get the response server name/ip using Apache HttpClient?

I'm using Apache HttpClient 3.x for contacting a Big IP that will then redirect my request to one of 1-N machines. We have the need to know which of the N machines actually picked up the request though, and I'm not sure how to get this information. I looked through the Response headers with no luck, so I'm wondering if this information...

Any way to simulate F5 BIG-IP server?

We have a potential client that uses F5 BIG-IP servers for load balancing. In determining if we could cleanly integrate our product with their Load Balancers, I started looking at the API's provided by F5. The problem is, I can't run any custom code with their API's without an F5 server. Does anyone know if there is a software equival...

Problem with struts2 redirectAction result when using BigIP

I am using struts2 (2.1.6) and want to redirect to Action2 from Action1. struts.xml: <action name="Action1" class="Action1"> <result name="success" type="redirectAction">Action2</result> </action> <action name="Action2" class="Action2"> <result name="success">/demo.jsp</result> </action> This works as expected: http://myserv...