ACE Module: How do I confirm that sticky is working?

[brobson]

Greetings,

I have implemented stickiness using source and destination IP address.  It doesn't seem to be working consistently.  When a client connects to the VIP, I see the connection when I do 'show conn' but when I do 'show sticky database' the database is empty.  I've used multiple forms of the 'show sticky database' including but not limited to 'show sticky database client ipaddress', 'show sticky database type ip-netmask both', etc.  Am I looking in the right place?  Are there other commands that I can use to confirm that stickiness is working?

Thank you,

barb

[Surya ARBY]

What does it happen if you configure your stickyness only on source ip address ? Does it appear correctly ? Can you send your config here ?

[jackwikinski · Accepted solution]

Hi Barb,

As a first step in troubleshooting your issue of stickiness you can issue the following command:

sh resource usage all. The output should look as follows:

sticky                   118303

The 11803 is the current amount of sticky entries in use.

Do it before you attempt a sticky connection and see what the count is.

Then attempt a connection and do the command again and see if the count has increased.

If it has than the feature is working. If not than you may have a configuration issue.

Please post your configuration of the sticky and the policy map associated with it.

Hope this helps.

thanks.

Jack.

[brobson]

Thank you both for your responses.  Jack's answer was particularly helpful.  The additional command allowed me to see that my connection was not sticking to the server.  So I checked my policy and found an error there.  I've corrected the policy, stickiness is working and I can see the connections in the database.

Thanks much!

barb