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5-1

Catalyst 6500 Series Content Switching Module Configuration Note

OL-4612-01

Configuring Real Servers and Server Farms

This chapter describes how to configure the servers and server farms and contains these sections:

• 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

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:

• 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 “Configuring Real Servers” section on page 5-2.)

• Set or specify the attributes of the real servers.

You also can configure inband health monitoring for each server farm. (See the “Configuring Inband

Health Monitoring” section on page 9-7.) You can assign a return code map to a server farm to configure

return code parsing. (See the “Configuring HTTP Return Code Checking” section on page 9-8.)

To configure server farms, perform this task:

Command Purpose

Step 1

Router(config-module-csm)# serverfarm

serverfarm-name

Creates and names a server farm and enters the

server farm configuration mode

Step 2

Router(config-slb-sfarm)# predictor

[roundrobin | leastconns | hash url | hash

address [source | destination] [ip-netmask] |

forward]]

Configures the load-balancing prediction

algorithm

. If not specified, the default is

roundrobin.

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