On May 1, 2009, at 6:57 PM, Brad Knowles wrote: > > Because of a recent incident where we discovered after-the-fact that > we > needed to employ a feature that is brand-new to us, I did recently > check out > all the latest NetScaler documentation (we recently upgraded from 7x > to 8.0, > although 9.0 and even 9.1 are already out). I can tell you that the > documentation has expanded by about 25-50% additional pages, year on > year -- > All because of the web interface stuff where it takes something like > six or > seven clicks and drop-down menus and whatever and they have to show > you > large graphical screen dumps that take up a quarter of the page, to > achieve > what you can do in a single CLI command.
Just to comment - I've been using it for the last 2 years at $current_job, and we just moved to 8.1 from 6.X. 6.X also had a web gui, and it worked just fine. I tend to use the ssh console, but that was after learning all about the system, and frequently wanting to do the same thing as we already had setup. You can get very far with copying an existing command, for refrerence. sh run | grep XZY works wonderfully. (For the rest of the world: Show Running_config | grep ) On the other hand, someone I just talked to spoke about using nginx <http://nginx.net/ > as their load balancer. They weren't doing the routing we do, or the firewalling, but they did do a TON of http load balancing/ layer 7 http proxying. To the tune of Gbps large. We saw something interesting from Foundry (now Brocade, and when they last came to sell us some) , but it had one major problem- no gzip compression offload. That was their ServerIron offering.. Matthew Matthew Barr [email protected] cell: 646-765-6878 _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
