What is aFleX?
aFleX is a powerful and flexible Thunder Series feature that you can use to manage your traffic and provide enhanced benefits and services.
aFleX uses industry-standard Tcl (Tools Command Language) based syntax.
- Standard Tcl commands
- Special set of extensions provided by the Thunder device
aFleX allows:
- Content inspection (headers / data)
- Actions on traffic
- Block traffic
- Redirect traffic to a specific service group (pool) or server (node)
- Modify traffic content
Advantages of using aFleX?
aFleX policies allow you to exercise more granular control of packet inspection and traffic load balancing. The benefits can be, but are not limited to:
- Higher Availability
- Provide an unavailable/sorry page when all servers or applications are not responding or are down.
- Redirect end-users to the backup data center if all servers or applications are not responding or are down.
- Higher Security
- Block specific end-users and/or specific client traffic.
- Higher Flexibility
- Transparently convert an HTTP web application to HTTPS
- Provide persistency for a specific application
- Forward specific end-users and/or specific client traffic to a specific pool of servers or specific server in a pool
- Transparently add a new hostname to an existing Web site
- Higher Performance
- Improve end-users’ browser cachability for web site static content
See aFleX business cases on the aFleX Examples page.
Related Posts
- aFleX Tutorial: Scripting Tool for Thunder Products
- aFleX Advanced Scripting
- aFleX Examples
- aFleX Scripting Language Optimization
- aFleX Scripting Language Troubleshooting
aFleX Scripting Language and Layer 7 Deep-packet Inspection
aFleX is a powerful and flexible scripting language that you can use to manage your traffic and provide enhanced benefits and services. It’s built into the Thunder® Application Delivery Controller (ADC), a high-performance load balancing solution that enables your applications to be highly secure, available, and accelerated.