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User
Guide

for

the

Cisco

Application

Networking

Manager

5.2
OL-26572-01
Chapter
8






Configuring

Real

Servers

and

Server

Farms
Configuring
Health

Monitoring
Step
5
Enter
health

monitoring

general

attributes

(see
Ta
b

l

e
8-12
).
Note
Fields
and

information

related

to
IPv6
require
ACE
module
and
ACE

appliance
software
Version
A5(1.0)
or

later.
Note
Click
More
Settings
to
access

the

additional

general

attributes

for

the

selected
probe

type.

By
default,
ANM

hides

the

probe

attributes

with

default

values

and

the

probe

attributes

that

are

not
commonly
used.
UDP
Sends
a

UDP

packet

to

a

real

server.

The

probe

marks

the

server

as

failed

only

if

an

ICMP

Port
Unreachable
messages

is

returned.
VM
This
probe

type

requires

the

following:

•
The
ACE

appliance

or

module

is

using

software
Version
A4(2.0)
or

a

later

release.

•
The
ACE

is
configured

with

a

VM

Controller

connection

(see

the
“Configuring
and

Verifying

a

VM
Controller
Connection”

section

on

pa

ge

8-29 ).
Sends
a

probe

to

the

VMware

VM

Controller

to

determine

the

average

amount

of

both

CPU

and

memory
usage
of

its

associated

local

VMs.

The

probe

response

determines

whether

the

ACE

load-balances

traffic
to
the

local

VMs

only

or

bursts

traffic

to

the

remote

VMs

due

to

high

usage

of

the

local

VMs.
Note
You
use

a

VM

probe
when
you

c

onfigure

t

he
ACE
for

Dynamic
Workload
Scaling

(see

the
“Configuring
Dynamic

Workload

Scaling”

section

on

pa

ge

8-26 ).
Table
8-11
Probe
Types

(continued)
Probe
Type
Description
Ta
b

l

e


8-12
Health
Monitoring

General

Attributes
Field
Action
Description
Description
for

this

probe.

Valid

entries

ar

e

unquoted

al

phanumeric

text

strings

with

no

spaces

and

a
maximum
of

240

characters.
Probe
Int

erval
(Seconds)
Number
of

seconds

that

the

ACE

is

to

wait

before

sending

another

probe

to

a

server

marked

as

passed.
Valid
entries

are

from

2

to

65535

for

all

probe

types

except

the

VM

probe,

which

has

a

range

from

300
to
65535.

The

default

values

are

as

fo

llows:

•
ACE
appliance
(all
software
versions)—Default
is
15

seconds

for
all
probe

types

except

the
VM
probe,
which

has

a

default

of

300

seconds.

•
ACE
module:

–

Software

Version

A4(1.0)

and

later—Default

is

15

seconds

for

all

probe

types

except

the

VM
probe,
which

has

a

default

of

300

seconds.

–

All

software

versions

before

A4(1.0)—Default

is

120

seconds.
Note
The
VM

probe
type
requires
ACE
software

Version
A4(2.0)
or

later

on

either

device

type.