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Chapter 7 Configuring Stickiness
Configuring Sticky Groups
Step 4 Do the following:
• Click Deploy Now to deploy this configuration on the ACE appliance. To configure sticky statics,
see Configuring Sticky Statics, page 7-21.
• Click Cancel to exit the procedure without saving your entries and to return to the Sticky Groups
table.
• Click Next to save your entries and to configure another sticky group.
Enable Sticky For
Response
This check box option appears for sticky types: Layer 4 Payload and SSL.
Check this check box to instruct the ACE to parse the response bytes from a server and perform
sticky learning. Clear the check box when you do not want the ACE to perform this operation.
Sticky Server Farm Select a server farm you want to associate with this sticky group.
Backup Server Farm This field appears when a server farm is selected.
Select a backup server farm to be associated with this sticky group. If the primary server farm is
down, the ACE appliance uses the backup server farm.
Aggregate State This field appears when a server farm and backup server farm are selected.
Check this check box to indicate that the state of the backup server farm is tied to the virtual server
state. Clear this check box if the backup server farm is not tied to the virtual server state.
Enable Sticky on
Backup Server Farm
This field appears when a server farm and backup server farm are selected.
Check this check box to indicate that the backup server farm is sticky. Clear this check box if the
backup server farm is not sticky.
Buddy Group This field appears when a server farm is selected.
Associate the server farm with an existing buddy sticky group or create a buddy sticky group.
When you associate multiple server farms with the same buddy group, client requests are stuck to
the same real server even when the requests are processed by different server farms. For more
information, see the “Buddy Sticky Groups” section on page 7-6.
Note The ACE does not support the buddy group feature for SSL or RTSP sticky types.
Replicate on HA Peer Check this check box to indicate that the ACE appliance to replicate sticky table entries on the
standby ACE appliance. If a failover occurs and this option is selected, the new active ACE
appliance can maintain the existing sticky connections.
Clear this check box to indicate that the ACE appliance is not to replicate sticky table entries on
the standby ACE appliance.
Timeout (Minutes) Enter the number of minutes that the ACE appliance keeps the sticky information for a client
connection in the sticky table after the latest client connection terminates. Valid entries are integers
from 1 to 65535; the default is 1440 minutes (24 hours).
Timeout Active
Connections
Check this check box to specify that the ACE appliance is to time out sticky table entries even if
active connections exist after the sticky timer expires.
Clear this check box to specify that the ACE appliance is not to time out sticky table entries even
if active connections exist after the sticky timer expires. This is the default behavior.
Table 7-1 Sticky Group Attributes (continued)
Field Description
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