Help configure CSS

[abarisone]

Hi all,   Above all sorry for my English.

I' m new in configure css and I have inerhited some of them configured and working.

Now I need to change the balancing algorithm from aca to roundrobin.

I tried with the command  balance roundrobin -trying to replace the balance aca command inside content rule

When I  put the command above, all traffic to the url went down and also when I put the command balance aca, to re-esablish the old balancing, the traffic remained down. The only way I knew to re-establish all was to restart the two css

Pleae could you help me: There is a correct sequence of commands to write to change the balance algorithm ? has anyone documents for dummies to share to  learn css

Thanks a lot

Ale

[Mark Richards]

There is a good .pdf available on the Cisco site called "Cisco Content Services Switch Command Reference Guide" for software version 8.20, it may be worth a look.

[abarisone]

Thanks Mark,

I' ve read the document time ago without finding the answer. Anyway just this morning I' ve found the answer:

Before to change the balance you need to suspend the content, change the balancing and after active the content.

I' m really disappointed that in all the cisco documents I' ve read there was not any note that suggests to suspend before to change the balancing.

If anyone  know when use the "suspend" please could tell me ?

Thanks

Ale

[ray_juarez]

Hi Ale,

From the configuration guide version 8.10, i found this:

"Activating a Content Rule
Activating content enables the CSS to provide access to the content. To activate
content, use the active command in content mode to activate specific content.

Note Once a content rule is activated, the following commands cannot be changed for
the active content rule: port, protocol, balance, dnsbalance, header-field-rule,
and url. In addition, you cannot remove the last remaining service from the
content rule. If you need to make modifications to an active content rule, you must
first suspend it."

greetings!

Ray