iRule as a Test Tool (hey that rhymes!)

I've recently been using siege and the totally killer curl-loader for this type of thing (mock SSL testing for the TPS report stuff).

 

 

This may not apply to your scenario, but one place where BigIP can be a HUGE help with testing: use it for serverside SSL if you're running HTTPS loads to test back end SSL TPS capacity on the server side. This offloads the server-side SSL traffic to the cavium chip and you'll be able to use a normal HTTP VS on your test agent side. For me, this trick gave me a ton more headrom on my client side because they didn't have to deal with cert negotiation. Overall, it essentially added up to a few thousand extra client connections.

 

 

The setup is like: Test clients -> Port 80 VIP on BigIP -> Serverside SSL-> pool members using SSL

 

 

It worked great.

 

 

-Matt