Configuring Server Farms - Cisco catalyst 6500 series Configuration Note

Configuring Real Servers and Server Farms
This chapter describes how to configure the servers and server farms and contains these sections:
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Configuring Server Farms

A server farm or server pool is a collection of servers that contain the same content. You specify the
server farm name when you configure the server farm and add servers to it, and when you bind the server
farm to a virtual server. When you configure server farms, do the following:
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You also can configure inband health monitoring for each server farm. (See the
Health Monitoring" section on page
return code parsing. (See the
To configure server farms, perform this task:
Command
Step 1
Router(config-module-csm)# serverfarm
serverfarm-name
Step 2
Router(config-slb-sfarm)# predictor
[roundrobin | leastconns | hash url | hash
address [source | destination] [ip-netmask] |
forward]]
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Configuring Server Farms, page 5-1
Configuring Real Servers, page 5-2
Configuring Dynamic Feedback Protocol, page 5-4
Configuring Client NAT Pools, page 5-5
Configuring Server-Initiated Connections, page 5-6
Configuring URL Hashing, page 5-6
Name the server farm.
Configure a load-balancing algorithm (predictor) and other attributes of the farm
Set or specify a set of real servers. (See the
Set or specify the attributes of the real servers.
"Configuring HTTP Return Code Checking" section on page
C H A P T E R
"Configuring Real Servers" section on page
9-7.) You can assign a return code map to a server farm to configure
Purpose
Creates and names a server farm and enters the
server farm configuration mode
Configures the load-balancing prediction
algorithm
roundrobin.
Catalyst 6500 Series Content Switching Module Configuration Note
"Configuring Inband
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