What is Radware AppDirector?

Radware AppDirector (AD) is a powerful tool to optimize your server operations, through load balancing, consolidation and virtualization. The AppDirector can be used to manage various SIP services over a single public IP address. AppDirector is able to differentiate traffic by the required SIP service and forward the traffic to the relevant SIP servers, logically in groups referred to as farms. This saves public IP addresses, and provides transparent scalability allowing the addition of more services to an existing SIP service IP address. The service differentiation also allows for individual farm logic for the Application servers who represent the individual services. This is important because dispatch methods and persistency requirements can vary per Application and the AppDirector is flexible enough to manage differentiated service requirements with a single switching engine while delivering the most granular traffic distribution possible.

AppDirector combines the power of Radware’s Multi-Gigabit Application Switching hardware with APSolute OS Application-Smart Networking to ensure local and global server availability, accelerated application performance and safeguard applications with integrated intrusion prevention and denial of service protection for fast, reliable, secure application delivery. AppDirector uses advanced Layer 4 through 7 policies and granular application intelligence for end-to-end application-smart networking, aligning server infrastructure operations with application front end requirements to eliminate traffic surges, server bottlenecks, connectivity disconnects and downtime for assured application access, full application continuity and redundancy. The AppDirector constantly monitors the health of SIP servers using SIP Option requests. When a SIP server is detected to be down, based upon application responses, the AppDirector automatically switches to other available SIP servers. AppDirector's comprehensive security suite ensures that voice services are not compromised by DoS attacks or other exploits of the SIP protocol, allowing reliable and continuous delivery of VoIP and related mix media services.

Why Monitor Radware AppDirector?

Radware AppDirector (AD) is an intelligent application delivery controller for data centers that provides scalability and application-level security for IT infrastructure optimization, fault tolerance and redundancy. AppDirector enables fine tuning of network behavior at all critical points, end-to-end, based on granular application-specific classification of packets to optimize traffic flows for a wide range of enterprise Web applications such as CRM, ERP, and other IP-based applications including support for VoIP, streaming media, and secure LDAP applications. If Radware AppDirector, which assures service operators of continuous network connectivity and secure transaction of business, starts malfunctioning suddenly, the connection to mission-critical services will be lost, thereby causing irreparable damage to reputation and revenue. It is therefore imperative that the operations of the Radware AppDirector are monitored 24 x 7. eG Enterprise provides exclusive Radware AppDirector monitoring model for monitoring the availability of application and farm servers, data/packet transmission, CPU and Network utilization and load balancing.