The new features of the Operating System (Big-IP V13) from the company F5 Networks.
BIG-IP LTM NEW FEATURES:
- Health Monitor Statistics:
This feature allows you to have statistics on the monitors and instances that exist on the services, as follows:
Monitor monitoring:
My_HTTP_Monitor
o Probe_count 717
o Probe_success 614
oProbe_failure 89
My_HTTP_Monitor instance 172.16.20.1:80
o Probe_count 181
o Probe_success 79
o Probe_failure 89
- TCP Profiles:
Some new and improved profiles have been created to help with application optimization, however, the previous ones are not deleted, as many may have created profiles based on them.
Profiles f5-tcp-wan, f5-tcp-lan, f5-tcp-mobile are current versions of tcp-wan-optimized, tcp-lan-optimized and tcp-optimized where the latest features have been incorporated. The f5-tcp-progressive profile which is a general purpose profile.
According to the manufacturer, these 4 new profiles will be updated with best practices as they evolve.
Helping a faster and sectorized diagnosis when configuring and/or supporting “HA”, new messages and commands have been incorporated in the new version.
- Other Features and Improvements
- Cipher Rules and Cipher Groups:
This release introduces cipher groups and rules that allow you to view, organize, and apply cipher suites; The groups are managed with the following Boolean operators:
UNION= allows everything.
INTERSECT= Allows only what is in A and B.
DIFFERENCE= What is indicated is excluded.
- Elliptical curve crypto (ECC) support for F5 external crypto offload:
It allows you to delegate the burden of cryptographic operations from a virtual version to a physical version.
- Upload the QKVIEW diagnostic file directly to iHealth.
