Fortinet 257 FortiWeb 5.0 Patch 6 Administration Guide
receives the connection depends on your configuration of load-balancing algorithm, weight,
server health checking, or content routing by either HTTP header-based routing.
To prevent traffic from being forwarded to unavailable web servers, the availability of
physical and domain servers in a server farm can be verified using a server health check.
Whether the FortiWeb appliance will redistribute or drop the connection when a physical or
domain server in a server farm is unavailable varies by the availability of other members and
by your configuration of the Deployment Mode option in the policy.
•Offline protection, true transparent proxy, and transparent inspection mode — When
the FortiWeb appliance receives traffic destined for a virtual server or passing through a
bridge, it allows the traffic to pass through to members of the server farm.
To configure a server farm
1. Before configuring a server farm, you must first define the web servers that will be members
of the server farm. For details, see “Defining your web server by its IP address” on page 251
and/or “Defining your web server by its DNS domain name” on page 253. If you will route
requests to specific web servers based upon their HTTP headers, also configure expressions
to define matching requests. See “Routing based upon URL or “Host:” name” on page 262.
Also, if the client will be connecting via HTTPS and FortiWeb is operating in a mode that
performs SSL inspection instead of SSL offloading, you must upload the web site’s server
certificate. See “Uploading a server certificate” on page 289.
2. Go to Server Objects > Server > Server Farm.
To access this part of the web UI, your administrator’s account access profile must have
Read and Write permission to items in the Server Policy Configuration category. For details,
see “Permissions” on page 47.
3. Click Create New.
A dialog appears.
4. Configure these settings:
Setting name Description
Server Farm Name Type a name that can be referenced by other parts of the
configuration. Do not use spaces or special characters. The
maximum length is 35 characters.
Comments Type a description of the server farm. The maximum length is 64
characters.
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