Section I. Application Guide; Preface; Foreword; The Loadmaster Documentation - KEMP Technologies LoadMaster 1500 Installation And Configuration Manual

Section I. Application Guide

A. Preface

1. Foreword

Thank you for purchasing KEMP's LoadMaster!
We wish you much success with your KEMP's LoadMaster Appliance.

2. The LoadMaster Documentation

The KEMP's LoadMaster documentation consists of 2 manuals:
- The Application and Installation guide, which describes the main features of the
Load Balancer and the setup of the LoadMaster hardware component,
- The WUI manual, i.e. the manual for the Web User Interface, which describes the setup and control of a
Load Balancing Site via the Web User Interface.

3. Typographical Conventions

Screenshots and photographs may be design models and might not correspond exactly to real-life
components.

4. Glossary and Abbreviations

Access Code: An Access Code will be generated during the initial setup of the LoadMaster. You must contact
your KEMP Technologies representative for your 60-day evaluation or your full purchased license key.
Balancer: A network device or logic that distributes inbound connections with a common source address
across a farm of server machines.
Farm Side: The LoadMaster network interface to which the server farm is connected.
Flat-based: The VIPs and the real servers are on the same subnet.
HA: Highly Available or High Availability (used interchangeably)
ICMP: Internet Control Message Protocol
MIB: Management Information Base, a database of object definitions. The definition specifies whether an
SNMP manager can monitor the object.
NAT: Network Address Translation
NAT-based: The VIPs and the real servers are on different subnets.
Network Side: The LoadMaster network interface over which requests to the server farm are made.
One-armed: Only one Ethernet interface is used for in and outbound traffic. Farm side and Network side are
both connected to it.
RS: Real Server: Physical server machines which make up a server farm.
Service: A Service is an application that is connected to the network.
Shared IP: The shared (floating) IP address is always the assigned IP address of the active LoadMaster in a
HA solution.
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