LOAD BALANCER MANAGEMENT

Load balancing rules and virtual IPs accumulate over years. Nobody is sure which rules are live, traffic distribution is tuned by folklore, and changes are made nervously.

Actors

  • Network Engineer
  • Application Owner
  • NOC Manager

Systems / Vendors

  • F5 BIG-IP
  • Citrix ADC
  • ServiceNow

Business Question

"We have nine hundred load balancer rules and I'd bet a third do nothing — who's brave enough to delete one?"

What SPoG Does

  • Centralizes load balancing rule and VIP configuration across the estate with usage visibility per rule.
  • Streamlines changes through validated, reversible workflows.
  • Optimizes traffic distribution from observed patterns rather than inherited settings.

Outcome Metrics

−50%

Rule change lead time

−30%

Stale rules in production

2–4 wks

To first managed estate