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User
Guide

for

the

Cisco

Application

Networking

Manager

5.2
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Chapter
7






Configuring

Virtual

Servers
Configuring
Virtual

Servers
Note
If
you
enable
the
Gzip
or
Deflate

compression

format,

ANM

automatically

inserts

a

L7

Load
Balance
Primary

Action

to

exclude

the

MIME

types

listed

above.

However,

if

you

disable

HTTP
compression
later

on,

you

will

need

to

remove

the

auto-inserted

Load

Balance

Primary

Action.
When
you

enable

HTTP

compression,

the

ACE

compresses

the

packets

using

the

following

default
compression
parameter

values:

•
Mime
type—All

text

formats

(text/*).

•
Minimum
size—512
bytes.

•
User
agent—None.
Step
9
In
the

SSL

Initiation

field,

choose

an

existing

service

or

choose
*New*
to

create

a

new

service:

•
If
you

chose

an

existing

SSL

service,

you

can
view,

modify,

or

duplicate

the

existing

configuration.
See
the

“Shared

Objects

and

Virtual

Servers”

section

on

page

7-9

for

more

information

about
modifying
shared

objects.

•
If
you

chose
*New*,
configure

the

service

using

the

information

in
Ta
b

l

e
7-5
.
For

more

information
about
SSL,

see

the

“Configuring

SSL”

section

on

page

11-1 .
Step
10
In
the
Insert

HTTP

Headers

field,

enter

the

name

of
the
HTTP

header

and

the

value

to
be
matched

using
the
header_name=header_value

format

where:

•
header_name
represents

the

name

of

the

HTTP

header

to

insert
in

the

client

HTTP

request.

Valid
entries
are

unquoted

text

strings

with

no

spaces

and

a

maximum

of

64

alphanumeric

characters.

You
can
specify

predefined

header

or

any

custom

header

name

provided

that

it

does

not

exceed

the
maximum
length

limit.

•
header_value
represents

the

expression

string
to
compare
against

the

value

in

the

specified

field

in
the
HTTP

header.

Valid

entries

are

text

strings

with

a

maximum

of

255

alphanumeric

characters.

The
ACE
supports

regular

expressions

for

matching.

Header

expressions

allow

spaces,

provided

that

the
spaces
are

escaped

or

quoted.

All

headers

in

the

header

map

must

be

matched.

Ta

b

l

e


14-33

lists

the
supported
characters

that

you

can

use

in

regular

expressions.
For
example,

you

mi

ght

enter

Host=www.cisco.com.
Step
11
Do
one

of

the

following:

•
Click
Deploy
Now

to

deploy
this

configuration

on

t

he
ACE
and

save

your

entries

t

o

the
running-configuration
and

startup-configuration

files.

•
Click
Cancel
to

exit

this

procedure

without

saving
your
entries
and
to
return

to

the

Virtual

Servers
table.

•
Click
Deploy
Later

to

save

your
entries
and
apply
the
configuration

at

a

later

time.
Related
Topics

•
Configuring
Virtual

Server

Properties,

page
7-11

•
Configuring
Virtual

Server
SSL
Termination,

page
7-17

•
Configuring
Virtual
Server
Protocol

Inspection,

page
7-18

•
Configuring
Virtual
Server
Layer

7

Lo

ad

Balancing,

page
7-30