Recently I came across to be working with Cisco CSS 11500 load balancer, I've always worked in past with F5 Big IP and its magical UI for configuration and thus never had to play around with config files.
I got the config file and it has blocks of service definitions and owner definitions. The services are http,ssl for server A and server B
The owners are : Dev.myawesomenewcompany.com and vip. The owner: dev.myawesomenewcompany.com has service added from above ones. The owner: vip is pointing to the load balancer IP and it has services from above + sticky balance and sticky mask ( for sessions)
I understand the dev.myawesomenewcompany.com block BUT What I don't understand is: what does the vip block do and why is it needed to be a separate one ? Why would someone want to access a different LB IP directly (one which isnt seen by the DNS)
