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IPFIX reporting with F5 Big IP (part 2)

F5’s iRules are a powerful tool used to access information about the network traffic flowing through your load balancer. Using the Tools Command Language Tcl, a common interface found across the networking industry, we can focus on network-level events and extract information. Unlike most IPFIX-exporting devices, the user needs to manually build a netflow monitor …

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IPFIX reporting with F5 Big-IP (part 1)

Modern networks are designed to provide fast and reliable access to the applications that make us productive. Maybe it’s the inventory system used to keep procurement and warehousing in sync, or maybe it’s a system that queues and processes financial transactions. In any case, often these business-critical apps will need to be scaled horizontally to …

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