MACROMEDIA COLDFUSION 5-ADVANCED ADMINISTRATION Manual page 301

Session-Aware Load Balancing
Field
Working directory
Startup Parameters
Timeout (sec)
Frequency (sec)
Return Value
Description
Enter the absolute path to the probe's working directory.
Do not change the default selection unless you installed
ColdFusion to a directory other than the default
installation directory.
Replace the <URL> with the actual URL of the site you
want the probe to access, and replace <success string>
with a text string that appears on apage on the site you
are probing.
Tips.
Be sure to include a space between the URL and the
success string that you specify. The success string
must be enclosed in quotation marks.
Do not modify the RESTART explicit parameter if you
want the probe to automatically restart the ColdFsion
Server upon detecting a failure. However, if you do not
want ClusterCATS to auatomatically restart the
ColdFusion Server upon detecting a failure, replace
RESTART with NORESTART.
Enter a time, in seconds, to indicate how long
ClusterCATS should wait before a ColdFusion server
failure is registered.
Do not set this value to less than 60 seconds because
ClusterCATS may restart the ColdFusion server
inadvertently (due to network congestion, for example),
rather than detect an actual failure on the ColdFusion
server.
Enter a time, in seconds, to indicate how often the probe
checks the ColdFusion server.
Probes that restart Web applications should be
configured to run no more frequently than the time it
takes to stop and restart ColdFusion. This time is highly
site-specific, because it depends on the system
resources available on the servers and the volume of
traffic at the site.
For probes that do not restart the Web application, the
Frequency depends on how long you can reasonably
afford to have your Web application off-line. A minimum
Frequency of 15 seconds is recommended.
Enter 0 so that the probe succeeds on a successful
probing of the page. Enter a non-zero number to have the
probe succeed on a failure.
The default is 0. Only under rare circumstances would
you change this to a non-zero number.
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