is what Coyote Point does best. We view our physical and virtual ADC appliances as application “Swiss Army Knives”, whose problem solving capabilities are limited only by the creativity with which they are deployed.

EQ/OS 10 extends the problem solving capabilities of our Equalizer load balancer and ADC appliances with new tools you can use to solve application delivery challenges. This set of comprehensive features help our customers manage their application servers and infrastructure. There is even a choice of management interfaces empowering the customer to choose what best meets their needs.

Advanced application and server management capabilities allow Equalizer to automate tasks that would otherwise require manual intervention. They also allow our customers to direct traffic according to customizable rules and policies that help them correct misbehaving servers, middleware and application code.

Here are a few examples:

• Match Rules: These flexible, easily scripted rules allow application administrators to examine incoming requests and then choose which servers should receive which types of requests, and how those requests should be handled. Match rules can evaluate all sorts of request characteristics such as the client’s IP address or subnet, or the path elements in an HTTP request, all of which can be combined to give you enhanced control of how traffic is routed or processed.
• Smart Control™: Smart Control is the powerful automated management infrastructure that EQ/OS 10 uses to modify its own behavior. Administrators can create smart control events by defining triggers and actions to initiate changes in the Application Delivery environment. Smart control can be used to make changes to the EQ/OS 10 configuration, for example, to add or remove a server based on load or latency, or to control the surrounding environment. Smart control actions are available to control VMware™ virtual machines or even physical machines in real time, with our integrated IPMI control set.

EQ/OS 10 itself can be managed using a wide variety of standardized and custom interfaces to suit a user’s specific environment:

• A secure Web based Graphical User Interface (GUI). EQ/OS 10’s GUI was designed from the ground up to take advantage of AJAX interactive technologies. The result is a richer interface providing real-time feedback on application performance and server status. A popular capability of the GUI is that it is drag-and-drop enabled, making it easy to reconfigure clusters and server pools. Combining drag-and-drop into our intuitive rule editor simplifies constructing and modifying match rules. The GUI dashboard feature puts the most important alerts and system status information in a single window that you can use to monitor your entire application delivery stack in real-time.

• Our comprehensive Command Line Interface (CLI) will be very familiar to users of other enterprise class networking equipment. EQ/OS 10’s CLI provides role-based administration for all configuration objects, making authorization and accounting simple. Of course, the CLI includes built in help and command completion.
• EQ/OS 10 also provides full SNMP monitoring capabilities as well as a restful web API which can be used to administer and control our products via third party tools.