Cisco Systems 6000 manual Commands Available to all Probe Configurations, Http Probe

Configuring Probes for Health Monitoring

Commands Available to all Probe Configurations

These commands are common to all probe types:

Command	Purpose
Router(config-slb-probe)#	Set the interval between probes in seconds (from the end of the
interval seconds	previous probe to the beginning of the next probe)1.
	Range = 5–65535
	Default = 120 seconds
Router(config-slb-probe)#	Set the number of failed probes that are allowed before marking
retries retry-count	the server as failed1.
	Range = 0–65535
	Default = 3
Router(config-slb-probe)#	Set the time, in seconds, to wait before probing a failed server1.
failed failed-interval	Range = 5–65535
	Default = 300 seconds
Router(config-slb-probe)# open	Set the maximum time to wait for a TCP connection. This
open-timeout	command is not used for any non-TCP health checks (ICMP or
	DNS1).
	Range = 1–65535
	Default = 10 seconds
Router(config-slb-probe)#	Set the maximum time in seconds to wait for a reply from the
receive receive-timeout	real server1.
	Range = 1–65535
	Default = 10 seconds

1. The no form of this command restores the defaults.

HTTP Probe

An HTTP probe establishes an HTTP connection to a real server and then sends an HTTP request and verifies the response. The ip slb probe probe-namehttp command places the user in HTTP probe configuration submode.

To configure an HTTP probe, perform this task:

	Command	Purpose
Step 1
	Router(config)# ip slb probe	Configure an HTTP probe and enter the HTTP probe
	probe-name http	submode1.
Step 2
	Router(config-slb-probe-http)#	Configure basic authentication values for the HTTP SLB
	credentials username [password]	probe1.

	Catalyst 6000 Family Content Switching Module Installation and Configuration Note
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