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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
To
configure

probe

headers

and

expect

statuses

for

HTTPS

probes,

see

the

following

topics:

•
Configuring
Headers

for

HTTP

and

HTTPS

Probes,

page
8-74

•
Configuring
Health

Monitoring

Expect

Status,
page
8-74
IMAP
Probe

Attributes
Ta
b

l

e


8-21

lists

the

IMAP

probe

attributes.
Append
Port

Host

Tag
Check
box

that

when

checked,

configures

the

ACE

to

append

port

information

in

the

HTTPS

Host
header
when

you

configure

a

nondefault

destination

port

for

an

HTTPS

probe.

By

default,

the

check
box
i

s

unchecked

and

t

he

ACE

does

not


append

this

information.
Note
This
feature
requires
ACE

module

sof

tware

Version
A2(3.4)
and

ACE

appliance
software
Version
A3(2.7)

or

l

ater

releases.
TCP
Connection
Termination
Check
box
that

when

checked,

configures

t

he
ACE
t

o

terminate

TCP

co

nnections

gracefully
by
sending
a

FIN

to

the

server.

Uncheck

the

check

box

t

o

configure

the

ACE

to

terminate

a

TCP
connection
by

sending

an

RST.
Open
Timeout
(Seconds)
Number
of

seconds

to

wait

when

opening

a

connection

with

a

real

server.

Valid

entries

are

from

1
to
65535.

The

default

is

as

follows:

•
For
ACE

module

version

A2(3.x)

and

earlier,
the
default
is
10

seconds.

•
For
ACE

module
version

A4(1.0)
and
l

ater

or

ACE

appliance
version
A3(1.x)

and

later,

the
default
is

1

second.
User
Name
User
identifier

to

be

used

for

authentication

on

the

real

server.

Valid

entries

are

unquoted

text
strings
with

a

maximum

of

64

characters.
Password
Password
to

be

used

for

authentication

on

t

he

real

server.

Valid

entries

ar

e

unquoted

text

strings
with
a

ma

ximum

of


64

characters.
Reenter
the

password

in

the

Confirm

field.
Expect
Regular
Expression
Expected
response

data

from

the

probe

destination.

Valid

entries

are

text
strings
(quotes

allowed)
with
a

ma

ximum

of


255

characters.
Expect
Regex

Offset
Number
of

characters

into

the

received

message

or

buffer

where

the

ACE

is

to

begin

looking

for

the
string
specified

in

the

Expect

Regular

Expression

field.

Value

entries

are

from

1

to

4000.
Hash
Check
box

that

when

checked,

configures

the

ACE

to

use

an

MD5

hash

for

an

HTTP

GET

probe.
Uncheck
the

check

box

to

configure

t

he

ACE

not

t

o

use

an

MD5

hash

for


an

HTTP

GET

probe.
Hash
String
Field
that

appears

if

the

Hash

check

box

is

selected.
Enter
the

32-bit

hash

value

that

the

ACE

is

to

compare

with

the

hash

that

is

generated

from

the
HTTP
page

sent

by

the

server.

If

you

do

not

provide

this

value,

the

ACE

generates

a

value

the

first
time
it

queries

the

server,

stores

this

value,

and

matches

this

value

with

other

responses

from

the
server.
A

successful

comparison

causes

the

probe

to

maintain

an

Alive

state.
Enter
t

he

MD5

hash

value

as

a

quoted

or

un

quoted

hexadecimal

string

with

16

c

haracters.
Table
8-20
HTTPS
Probe

Attributes

(continued)
Field
Action