gracefull shutdown weight or suspend

[cebetant]

Documentation describe the usage of weight to provide graceful server shutdown.

My testing with a telnet session is that you get a fairly graceful shutdown with the suspend command, telnet continue with the initial server until it end.

What is then the benefit of using weight?

[Gilles Dufour]

if you are using stickyness, if a server is suspended it can't be used.

However, if you changed the weight to 0, new connection hitting a sticky entry pointing to this server will still be forwarded to it.

This is for protocol like http which opense mutliple tcp connections while surfing a website.

Regards,

Gilles.

[mhuard]

Hello Gilles,

We're using ACE 4710 version A3(2.4), and the command "weight 0" is not allowed ?

This is different than the documentation "ACE 4700 series application control engine appliance command reference".

Is it a bug ?