9-9

User

Guide

for

the

Cisco

Application

Networking

Manager

5.2

OL-26572-01

Chapter

9

Configuring

Stickiness

Configuring

Sticky

Groups

Enable

Insert

This

option

appears

only

for

sticky

type

HTTP

Cookie.

Check

this

check

box

if

the

ACE

appliance

is

to

insert

a

cookie

in

the

Set-Cookie

header

of

the

response

from

the

server

to

the

client.

This

option

is

useful

when

you

want

to

use

a

session

cookie

for

persistence

but

the

server

is

not

currently

setting

the

appropriate

cookie.

When

selected,

the

ACE

appliance

selects

a

cookie

value

that

identifies

the

original

server

from

which

the

client

received

a

response.

For

subsequent

connections

of

the

same

transaction,

the

client

uses

the

cookie

to

stick

to

the

same

server.

Clear

this

check

box

to

disable

cookie

insertion.

Browser

Expire

This

option

appears

for

sticky

type

HTTP

Cookie

and

you

select

Enable

Insert.

Check

this

check

box

to

allow

the

client's

browser

to

expire

a

cookie

when

the

session

ends.

Clear

this

check

box

to

disable

browser

expire.

Offset

(Bytes)

This

option

appears

for

sticky

types

HTTP

Cookie

and

HTTP

Header.

Enter

the

number

of

bytes

the

ACE

appliance

is

to

ignore

starting

with

the

first

byte

of

the

cookie.

Valid

entries

are

integers

from

0

to

999.

The

default

is

0

(zero),

which

indicates

that

the

ACE

appliance

does

not

exclude

any

portion

of

the

cookie.

Length

(Bytes)

This

option

appears

for

sticky

types

HTTP

Cookie

and

HTTP

Header.

Enter

the

length

of

the

portion

of

the

cookie

(starting

with

the

byte

after

the

offset

value)

that

the

ACE

appliance

is

to

use

for

sticking

the

client

to

the

server.

Valid

entries

are

integers

from

1

to

1000.

Secondary

Name

This

option

appears

only

for

sticky

type

HTTP

Cookie.

Enter

an

alternate

cookie

name

that

is

to

appear

in

the

URL

string

of

the

Web

page

on

the

server.

The

ACE

appliance

uses

this

cookie

to

maintain

a

sticky

connection

between

a

client

and

a

server

and

adds

a

secondary

entry

in

the

sticky

table.

Valid

entries

are

unquoted

text

strings

with

no

spaces

and

a

maximum

of

64

characters.

Header

Name

This

option

appears

for

sticky

type

HTTP

Header.

Select

the

HTTP

header

to

use

for

sticking

client

connections.

Netmask

This

opt

ion

appears

onl

y

for

sticky

type

IP

Netmask.

Select

the

netmask

to

apply

to

the

source

IP

ad

dress,

the

destination

IP

ad

dress,

or

both.

IPv4

Netmask

This

option

appears

only

for

sticky

type

IP

Netmask

or

IPv6

Prefix

(IPv6

requires

ACE

module

and

ACE

appliance

software

Version

A5(1.0)

or

later).

This

option

is

mandatory

for

the

sticky

type

IP

Netmask

and

optional

for

the

sticky

type

IPv6

Prefix.

Select

the

netmask

to

apply

to

the

source

IP

ad

dress,

the

destination

IP

ad

dress,

or

both.

IPv6

Prefix

Length

This

option

appears

only

for

ACE

module

and

ACE

appliance

software

Version

A5(1.0)

or

later

and

for

sticky

type

IPv6

Prefix

or

IP

Netmask.

This

option

is

mandatory

for

the

sticky

type

IPv

Prefix

and

optional

for

the

sticky

type

IP

Netmask.

Enter

the

IPv6

prefix

length

to

apply

to

the

source

IP

address,

the

destination

IP

address,

or

both.

Table

9-1

Sticky

Group

Attributes

(continued)

Field

Description