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Chapter 6 Configuring Real Servers and Server Farms
Configuring Server Farms
Inband-Health Check This field appears only for host server farms.
By default, the ACE monitors the health of all real servers in a configuration through the use of
ARPs and health probes. However, there is latency period between when the real server goes down
and when the ACE becomes aware of the state. The inband health monitoring feature allows the
ACE to monitor the health of the real servers in the server farm through the following connection
failures:
• For TCP, resets (RSTs) from the server or SYN timeouts.
• For UDP, ICMP Host, Network, Port, Protocol, and Source Route unreachable messages.
When you configure the failure-count threshold and the number of these failures exceeds the
threshold within the reset-time interval, the ACE immediately marks the server as failed, takes it
out of service, and removes it from load balancing. The server is not considered for load balancing
until the optional resume-service interval expires.
Choose one of the following:
• Count—Tracks the total number of TCP or UDP failures, and increments the counters as
displayed by the show serverfarm name inband CLI command.
• Log—Logs a syslog error message when the number of events reaches the configured
connection failure threshold.
• Remove—Logs a syslog error message when the number of events reaches the threshold and
removes the server from service.
Note You can configure this feature and health probes to monitor a server. When you do, both are
required to keep a real server in service within a server farm. If either feature detects a
server is out of service, the ACE does not select the server for load balancing.
Connection Failure
Threshold Count
This field appears only when the Inband-Health Check is set to Log or Remove.
Enter the maximum number of connection failures that a real server can exhibit in the reset-time
interval before ACE marks the real server as failed. Valid entries are integers from 1 to 4294967295.
Reset Timeout
(Milliseconds)
This field appears only when the Inband-Health Check is set to Log or Remove.
Enter the number of milliseconds for the reset-time interval. Valid entries are integers from 100 to
300000. The default interval is 100.
This interval starts when the ACE detects a connection failure. If the connection failure threshold
is reached during this interval, the ACE generates a syslog message.When Inband-Health Check is
set to Remove, the ACE also removes the real server from service.
Changing the setting of this option affects the behavior of the real server, as follows:
• When the real server is in the OPERATIONAL state, even if several connection failures have
occurred, the new reset-time interval takes effect the next time that a connection error occurs.
• When the real server in the INBAND-HM-FAILED state, the new reset-time interval takes
effect the next time that a connection error occurs after the server transitions to the
OPERATIONAL state.
Table 6-5 Server Farm Attributes (continued)
Field Description
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