AX SERIES: ARULE ADVANCED SCRIPTING
The AX Series aRule scripting tool enables advanced, highly-flexible and efficient Layer 7 traffic management. aRule technology is based on the industry-standard TCL programming language. aRules do not introduce performance degradation, even when numerous features are turned on, due to AX’s scalable Advanced Core Operating System (ACOS) architecture that is tuned for multi-core CPUs.
The aRule advantage makes the AX Series an essential solution in any data center, and a key load balancer selection criterion. Some aRule usage examples include:
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aRule: Automatically Provide Content in the User's Language
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aRule: Reallocate Requests by Content Type to Optimize Data Center Resources
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aRule: Provide Easy to Remember URLs
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Easy to use, readable, customized policies to manipulate application Layer 7 traffic
- Deep packet inspection at high speed
- Eliminate traffic bottlenecks during peak and fluctuating usage conditions
Ability to offload logic from Web servers to a single point on the load balancer
- Less complexity
- Reduce redundant round trips/server loads
Granular load balancing traffic customization
- Traffic redirection to:
- Optimize servers based on content
- Optimize servers based on user language
- Security
- Drop traffic conforming to certain characteristics
- Ability to implement emergency attack
protection in the time between attack identification and server security patch in a single location
- Server cloaking
- Data protection
- Inbound or outbound
- Regardless of cause, block sensitive data leakage
- Ensure regularity compliance
- Identify and alert on mis-configured applications
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aRule technology benefits make for a must have feature in any load balancing solution.
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