In This Guide - Coyote Point Systems E350GX Installation And Administration Manual

Preface
This version of the Equalizer Installation and Administration Guide tells you how to install, configure, and maintain
Equalizer™ load balancers running Release 8.6 of the Equalizer software.

In This Guide

This guide contains the following chapters and appendices:
• Chapter 1, "Equalizer Overview", contains detailed descriptions of Equalizer concepts and terminology.
This chapter includes information to help you plan your Equalizer configuration. If you are setting up
Equalizer for the first time, be sure to read the Overview chapter before attempting to install and configure
your system.
• Chapter 2, "Installing and Configuring Equalizer Hardware", provides comprehensive instructions for
installing Equalizer hardware and setting up Equalizer to work with your networks and servers.
• Chapter 3, "Using the Administration Interface", discusses how to use Equalizer's HTML-based
administration interface, including adding administrative logins with distinct permissions.
• Chapter 4, "Equalizer Network Configuration", covers VLAN and switch port configuration, as well as
how to define static routes on Equalizer.
• Chapter 5, "Configuring Equalizer Operation", tells you how to configure system and global resources
through the Equalizer Administration Interface, including setting up a failover configuration.
• Chapter 6, "Administering Virtual Clusters", tells you how to add and remove virtual clusters and servers,
changing load balancing options, and shutting down servers.
• Chapter 7, "Monitoring Equalizer Operation", describes how to view information, statistics, and graphical
displays about Equalizer's operation.
• Chapter 8, "Using Match Rules", shows you to create match rules that distribute requests based on a
request's attributes.
• Chapter 9, "Administering GeoClusters", shows you how to use the optional Envoy product to add and
remove geographic clusters and sites and change geographic load balancing and targeting options.
• Appendix A, Server Agent Probes, describes how to develop custom server agents.
• Appendix B, Timeout Configuration, provides detailed desccriptions of all the timeout parameters used by
Equalizer and the effect that each has on client/server connections and server probes.
• Appendix C, Using Reserved IP Addresses, describes how to configure Equalizer to distribute requests to
servers assigned IP addresses on reserved, non-routable networks.
• Appendix D, Regular Expression Format, discusses Equalizer's regular expressions, components, formats,
and usage.
• Appendix E, Using Certificates in HTTPS Clusters, shows you how to obtain and install certificates for
HTTPS clusters.
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