• Have the habit of creating always a custom profile. Don’t use the default profiles. One benefit is that it will force you to look at the profile settings (a profile is a collection of settings). For example, opening the OneConnect profile will show what the limits are imposed in terms of connections and timeouts.

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Notes:

  • ADC: Application Delivery Controller

  • Top application on Internet today: HTTP

  • Intercept, inspect and/or transform requests and/or responses.
    Secret: hands-on practice
    Good security practice
    VLAN: View, Lab, Access, Notes

To remember, to memorize:

  • Health monitor interval: 5 sec
  • Health monitor timeout: 16 sec
  • Available, Unavailable, Offline, Unknown
  • Ratios, Priorities, Connections (R:1 P:0 C:0)
  • Priority activation
  • Profile: a collection of settings