9-4
User
Guide

for

the

Cisco

Application

Networking

Manager

5.2
OL-26572-01
Chapter
9






Configuring

Stickiness
Sticky
Types
HTTP
Header

Stickiness
You
can

use

HTTP-header

i

nformation

to

provide

st

ickiness.

With

HTTP

header

st

ickiness,

you

can
specify
a

header

offset

to

provide

stickiness

based

on

a

unique

portion

of

the

HTTP

header.
Related
Topics

•
Configuring
Stickiness,

page
9-1

•
Sticky
Types,

page
9-2

•
Sticky
Groups,

page
9-6

•
Sticky
Table,
page
9-6
IP
Netmask

and

IPv6

Prefix

Stickiness
You
can

use

the

source

IP

address,

the

destination

IP

address,

or

bot

h

t

o

uni

quely

i

dentify

i

ndividual
clients
and

their

requests

for

stickiness

purposes

based

on

their

IP

netmask

or

IPv6

prefix.

However,

if
an
enterprise

or

a

service

provider

uses

a

megaproxy

to

establish

client

connections

to

the

Internet,

the
source
IP

address

no

longer

is

a

reliable

indicator

of

the

true

source

of

the

request.

In

this

case,

you

can
use
cookies

or

one

of

the

other

sticky

methods

to

ensure

session

persistence.
Note
IPv6
requires

ACE

module

and

ACE

appliance

software

Version

A5(1.0)

or
later.
Related
Topics

•
Configuring
Stickiness,

page
9-1

•
Sticky
Types,

page
9-2

•
Sticky
Groups,

page
9-6

•
Sticky
Table,
page
9-6
Layer
4

Payload

Stickiness
Layer
4

pa

yload

stickiness

al

lows

you

t

o

stick

a

cl

ient

to

a

server

based

on

the

data

in

Layer

4

frames.
You
can

specify

a

beginning

pattern

and

ending

pattern,

the

number

of

bytes

to

parse,

and

an

offset

that
specifies
how

many

bytes

to

ignore

from

the

beginning

of

the

data.
Related
Topics

•
Configuring
Stickiness,

page
9-1

•
Sticky
Types,

page
9-2

•
Sticky
Groups,

page
9-6

•
Sticky
Table,
page
9-6