What is BigIp?

Andrew Gerber

- What is BigIp and how is it used within Thomson Reuters? - Are there any tools which help with managing/debugging BigIp issues?

Adam Moericke

BigIP is a load balancer. For instance you create a VIP, put in a pool of web servers, and then BigIP will manage the traffic. If a server goes down, BigIP won't send any more traffic to that server. If you're doing work on a web server, you can drain it from the VIP. Here's a website you can use to see the servers in your VIP pool, how many connections are on each server, which servers are drained, etc.
http://bigipadmin.int.westgroup.com/

mark.maruska

BigIP is a third-party solution from F5 and is not a Thomson Reuters technology; however Thomson Reuters does use it.
http://www.f5.com/products/big-ip/

mark.maruska

See related question, [What's a VIP in relation to BigIP?](
http://techoverflow.int.westgroup.com/questions/233/whats-a-vip-in-relation-to-bigip)