Fortinet 5.0 Patch 6 - page 276

Fortinet 276 FortiWeb 5.0 Patch 6 Administration Guide
Disabled virtual servers can be selected in a server policy, but will result in a policy that is
unable to forward traffic until the virtual server is enabled.
You can select disabled physical and domain servers for a server farm, but they will not be used
when forwarding traffic.
By default, physical and domain servers are enabled and the FortiWeb appliance can forward
traffic to them. To prevent traffic from being forwarded to a physical server, such as when the
server will be unavailable for a long time due to repairs, you can disable it. If the disabled
physical server is a member of a load-balanced server farm, the FortiWeb appliance will
automatically forward connections to other enabled physical servers in the server farm. For
content-based routing to server farms, the FortiWeb appliance will forward connections to the
first physical server in the server farm.
See also
•Defining your web server by its IP address
•Defining your web server by its DNS domain name
•Configuring virtual servers on your FortiWeb
•Grouping your web servers into server farms
•Enabling or disabling a policy
If the physical or domain server is a member of a server farm and will be unavailable only
temporarily, you can alternatively configure a server health check to automatically prevent the
FortiWeb appliance from forwarding traffic to that physical server when it is unresponsive. For
details, see “Configuring server up/down checks” on page 254.
Disabling a physical or domain server could block traffic matching policies in which you have
selected the physical server, or selected a server farm in which the physical server is a member.