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User
Guide

for

the

Cisco

Application

Networking

Manager

5.2
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Chapter
8






Configuring

Real

Servers

and

Server

Farms
Configuring
Server

Farms
Step
5
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.
The
window

refreshes

with

additional

configuration

options:

–

To

add

real

servers

to

the

server

farm,

see

the

“Adding

Real

Servers

to

a

Server

Farm”

section
on
page

8-37 .

–

To

specify

a

predictor

method

for

the

server

farm,

see

the

“Configuring

the

Predictor

Method
for
Server

Farms”

section

on

page

8-39 .

–

To

configure

return

code

checking,

see

the

“Configuring

Server

Farm

HTTP

Return

Error-Code
Checking”
section

on

pa

ge

8-46 .

•
Click
Cancel
t

o
exit
the
procedure
without
saving

your

entries
and
t

o
return
t

o
the
Ser

ver

Farms
table.

•
Click
Next
t

o
deploy
your

entries

and

to
configure
another
server
farm.
Step
6
(Optional)
To

display

statistics

and
status
information
for
an

existing
server
farm,

choose

a

server

farm
from
the

Server

Farms

table,

and

click

Details.
The
show

serverfarm

name

detail

CLI

command

output

appears.

See

the

“Displaying

Server

Farm
Statistics
and

Status

Information”

section

on

page

8-48

for

details.
Probes
Field
th

at

ap

pears

only

as

fol

lows:

•
For
all
host
server
farms.
The

Available

probe

list

contains

all
probe
types.

•
For
redirect

server

farms

configured

on
ACE
devices

that

use

the

following

software

versions:

–

ACE

module:

A2(3.x)

and

later

releases

–

ACE

appliance:

A3(x)

and

later

releases
The
redirect

server

farm

Available

probe

list

contains

only

probes

of

the

type

Is

Routed,

which
means
that

the

ACE

routes

the

probe

address

according

to

the

ACE

internal

routing

table

(see
the
“Configuring

Health

Monitoring

for

Real

Servers”

section

on

pa

ge

8-51 ).
In
the

Available

Items

list,

choose

the

probes

to

use

for

health

monitoring,

and

click

Add.

Th

e
selected
probes

appear

in

the

Selected

Items

list.
Note
You
can

associate

both

IPv6

and

IPv4

probes

to

a

server

farm.

IPv6

requires

ACE

module
and
ACE

appliance

soft

ware

Version

A5(1.0)

or

l

ater.
Note
The
list

of

available

probes

does

not

include

VM

health

monitoring

probes.

To

choose

a

VM
probe
for

monitoring

local

VM

usage,

see

the

Dynamic

Workload

Scaling

fi

el

d.
To
remove

probes

that

you

do

not

want

to

use

for

health

monitoring,

select

them

in

the

Selected
Items
list,

and

click

Remove.

The

selected

probes

appear

in

the

Available

Items

list.
Table
8-7
Server
Farm

Attributes

(continued)
Field
Description