Forum Discussion
Nov 18, 2003
I had to look this one up as I personally don't have an ANIP enabled device to work with. Here's some relevant information on ANIP.
ANIP (Auxillary Network Interface Processor) mode is a mode in which a percentage of CPU utilization is dedicated to network interface processing.
The first metric (GLOBAL_STATISTIC_ANIP_PERCENT) represents the percentage of time that an ANIP is doing useful work.
The second metric (GLOBAL_STATISTIC_MAX_ANIP_PERCENT) represents the high-water mark of the percentage of time an ANIP is doing useful work.
According to the documentation, BIG-IP has 3 overall processing modes that are mutually exclusive.
UP - UniProcessor
SMP - Symmetric Multiprocessor
ANIP - Auxillary Network Interface Processor
Single Processor System:
UP - Default
SMP - Not applicable
ANIP - Not applicable
Two Processor System:
UP - Happens temporarily at bootup only until transition to SMP or ANIP mode is complete. Not otherwise supported.
SMP - Default if no network interfaces are ANIP-enabled. Optionally configurable by ANIP-disabling all ANIP-capable network interfaces prior to boot.
ANIP - Default if any network interface is ANIP-enabled
This is all the info I have on ANIP mode. If you need more information feel free to contact F5 Technical Support
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-Joe