CSS Global Keepalives

[yves.haemmerli]

Global keepalives in a CSS should be a mean to simplify the services configuration because a global keepalive can be applied to multiple services.

However, I don't understand how is it possible as an IP address and a Port has to be specified for the global keepalive ! I was expecting that only common parameters (keepalive type, frequency, maxfailure, etc..) have to be specified.

How can I apply the same global keepalive to four different services (i.e 4 web servers) having a different IP address ?

Thank you for any help

Yves Haemmerli

[Gilles Dufour]

global keepalive was designed for services using the same keepalive to avoid each service to use its own kal which would consume CPU and bandwidth for nothing.

It was never intended to reduce number of config lines. [sorry].

Gilles.