
Load Balancing
256 Enterasys Xpedition User Reference Manual
To specify the connection threshold for servers in the group, enter the following command
in Configure mode:
Note: This limits the number of connections for each server in the group, not the total
number of connections for the group.
Verifying Servers and Applications
The XP automatically performs the following types of verification for the attached load
balancing servers/applications:
• Verifies the state of the server by sending a ping to the server at 5-second intervals. If
the XP does not receive a reply from a server after four ping requests, the server is
considered to be “down.”
• Checks that an application session on the server can be established by doing a simple
TCP handshake with the application on the configured physical port of the server at
15-second intervals. If the XP does not receive a reply from the application after four
tries, the application is considered to be “down.”
You can change the intervals at which pings or handshakes are attempted and the number
of times that the XP retries the ping or handshake before considering the server or
application to be “down.” You can change these parameters for all servers in a load
balancing group or for specific servers.
You can change the ping intervals and the number of retries by entering the following
Configure mode commands:.
Specify maximum number of
connections for all servers in the
group.
load-balance set group-conn-threshold <group name>
limit <maximum connections>
Set ping interval for all servers in
specified group.
load-balance set group-options <group name> ping-int
<seconds>
Set ping interval for specific
server.
load-balance set server-options <ipaddr> ping-int
<seconds> port <port number>
Set number of ping retries for all
servers in specified group.
load-balance set group-options <group name> ping-tries
<number>
Set number of ping retries for
specific server.
load-balance set server-options <ipaddr> ping-tries
<number> port <port number>
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