Cisco Systems 6000 manual Specify a probe type and a name, Character string of up to 15 characters

Configuring Probes for Health Monitoring

After you configure a probe, associate single or multiple probes with a server farm. All servers in the server farm receive probes of the probe types that are associated with that pool.

Note If you associate a probe of a particular type with a server farm containing real servers that are not running the corresponding service, the real servers send error messages when they receive a probe of that type.

To specify a probe type and name, perform this task:

Command	Purpose
Router(config)# ip slb probe	Specify a probe type and a name1.
probe-name [http icmp	• probe-nameis the name of the probe being configured; it has
telnet tcp ftp smtp
dns]	a character string of up to 15 characters.
	• http creates an HTTP probe with a default configuration.
	• icmp creates an ICMP probe with a default configuration.
	• telnet creates a Telnet probe with a default configuration.
	• tcp creates a TCP probe with a default configuration.
	• ftp creates an FTP probe with a default configuration.
	• smtp creates an SMTP probe with a default configuration.
	• dns creates a DNS probe with a default configuration.
Router# show ip slb probe	Display all probes and their configuration.

1. The no form of this command removes the probe type from the configuration.

Note When you specify a probe name and type, it is initially configured with the default values. Enter the probe configuration commands to change the default configuration.

This example shows how to configure a probe:

Router(config)# ip slb probe probe1 tcp

Router(config-slb-probe-tcp)# interval 120

Router(config-slb-probe-tcp)# retries 3

Router(config-slb-probe-tcp)# failed 300

Router(config-slb-probe-tcp)# open 10

Router(config-slb-probe-tcp)# receive 10

	Catalyst 6000 Family Content Switching Module Installation and Configuration Note
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