topic Also I have one more question in Application Networking

Setup ACE probe for HTTP host headers for multiple sites on rservers

smith4108 — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 17:51:33 GMT

We have multiple sites on each server. Is there a way to have the probe only stop traffic to a specific site or header and not take the complete rserver offline?

Thanks

Greg

Re: Setup ACE probe for HTTP host headers for multiple sites on

Syed Iftekhar Ahmed — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 03:36:13 GMT

If you are running multiple web servers on same servers using same IP addresse on the server. Then Host header field differentiate these web instances on the same physical machine.

Use header command under http probe definition to send appropriate HOST value with probe rquest

e.g

probe http site1

interval 2

faildetect 1000

passdetect interval 2

passdetect count 1

header Host header-value "www.site1.com"

expect status 200 200

probe http site2

interval 2

faildetect 1000

passdetect interval 2

passdetect count 1

header Host header-value "www.site2.com"

expect status 200 200

HTH

Syed iftekhar Ahmed

Re: Setup ACE probe for HTTP host headers for multiple sites on

smith4108 — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 13:33:20 GMT

Thank you, that worked. Still looking at what we had wrong in our original probes.

Re: Setup ACE probe for HTTP host headers for multiple sites on

smith4108 — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 14:21:01 GMT

I guess I am a little to quick on the response to say it is fixed. I didn't test properly. When we fail just a site the probe still takes down the whole server.

Any other ideas?

Here is what we put in:

probe http UAT-site-Http

interval 20

faildetect 3

passdetect interval 120

expect status 200 200

header Host header-value "www.site.com"

Re: Setup ACE probe for HTTP host headers for multiple sites on

Syed Iftekhar Ahmed — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 17:18:24 GMT

Is your web site listening on www.site.com?

If you type www.site.com on the browseryou get the page?

You are suppose to use multiple probes for multiple sites. Are you doing that.

What is the status of the other probes when you take one site down?

Syed

Re: Setup ACE probe for HTTP host headers for multiple sites on

smith4108 — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 17:25:45 GMT

yes the site still comes up on our browser, but the cookie shows us going to the other server all the time.

We are using a single probe for each web site.

The other probes show the other sites availble on the rserver.

We have tried using roundrobin and leastconnections. But as soon as one site is turned down all the traffic for all the other availble sites go to the one server with no sites down.

Greg

Re: Setup ACE probe for HTTP host headers for multiple sites on

Syed Iftekhar Ahmed — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 17:38:42 GMT

You will need to sanitize & share your config if you can ...

Syed,How are these applied to

aylesworth — Thu, 10 Sep 2015 22:48:13 GMT

Syed,

How are these applied to each serverfarm in multiples?

Currently we have one probe, SITECHECK applied to serverfarms via probe SITECHECK.

Can I assign multiple probes to the same serverfarm? Or do I assign the probes to the rservers themselves? If so, if one of the probes fails, will it still mark the rserver as down or will it still see it as up if the other probes still respond?

Thanks!

Multiple probes can be

Syed Iftekhar Ahmed — Thu, 10 Sep 2015 23:03:30 GMT

Multiple probes can be applied to a Serverfarm or Rservers and will have an OR logic applied by default (i.e any single failure will cause Rserver failure).

Its also possible to change his OR logic into AND logic using “fail-on-all" command

For e.g in the following case any probe failure will Mark the Rserver down

rserver SERVER1

ip address x.x.x.x

probe First_PROBE

probe Second_PROBE

Whereas with fail-on-all command , Rserver will be marked down only if both probes are down

rserver SERVER1

ip address x.x.x.x

probe First_PROBE

probe Second_PROBE

fail-on-all

Syed,First off, thanks for

aylesworth — Thu, 10 Sep 2015 23:20:08 GMT

Syed,

First off, thanks for replying to a thread that's 7 years old 🙂 I hadn't noticed that.

That info is exactly what I needed, thank you for the advice!

Also I have one more question

aylesworth — Thu, 10 Sep 2015 23:33:26 GMT

Also I have one more question: If one of the probes goes down and the fail-on-all flag is set, will the ace then forward traffic for only that failed probe to the second server in the farm?

Or will the probe-failed application still receive traffic, but the end users will receive an iis 500 or whatever the case is?

if fail-on-all is set and

Syed Iftekhar Ahmed — Thu, 10 Sep 2015 23:37:59 GMT

if fail-on-all is set and only one probe fails then ACE will not mark the Rserver as down.

Since Rserver is not marked down, all traffic will be sent to it as usual.

Users will experience the application error if they hit what is being served from the Application area which is not up.