For more information regarding the security incident at F5, the actions we are taking to address it, and our ongoing efforts to protect our customers, click here.

Forum Discussion

sprashanthac_81's avatar
sprashanthac_81
Icon for Nimbostratus rankNimbostratus
Dec 15, 2010

Is there any way to generate traffic to test the BIGIP ??

Hi,     I am trying to simulate the entire configuration in the lab and see if this is going to work fine. before copying the config. to production environment. Any idea about how to generate tr...
management
monitoring
hoolio's avatar
hoolio
Icon for Cirrostratus rankCirrostratus
Dec 15, 2010
Do you want free, open source tools or do you have budget to pay for a commercial tool?

 

 

In the past, I've used apache bench (ab on the LTM command line) and shell scripts with curl to do load testing with no license costs. At one company we bought Paessler's Web Stress Tool. It was cheap and provided reasonable functionality and testing capacity. Customers with more money have used Spirent's Avalanche and LoadRunner.

 

 

Aaron