Fortinet 539 FortiWeb 5.0 Patch 6 Administration Guide
Figure 58:Server Status widget
The Policy Name column shows the name of the policy. For information on policies, see
“Configuring a server policy” on page 483.
The Real Server column lists the real servers that the policies protect, and to which they
(depending on the operation mode) forward traffic. For details, see “Defining your web server by
its IP address” on page 251 and “Defining your web server by its DNS domain name” on
page 253.
The Server Status column varies by whether your policy organizes your web servers into a
server farm. For server farms, it shows the up/down status as determined by server health
check connectivity tests.
There may be multiple icons in this column. To determine which web server is associated with
an icon, hover your mouse cursor over the icon. The name of the web server then appears in a
tool tip.
•No icon — No associated server health check can be configured, because the policy
connects to a single, standalone server. (Server health checks are not supported by policies
whose Deployment Mode is Single Server.)
•Green icon — The server health check is currently detecting that the web server is
responsive to connections (“up”).
•Flashing yellow-to-red or grey icon — Either:
• no server health check is currently configured for that combination of server farm and
policy
• the server health check is currently detecting that the web server is not responsive to
connections (“down”)
The method that the FortiWeb appliance will use to reroute connections to an available
server varies by your configuration of Deployment Mode. For information on server health
checks, see “Configuring server up/down checks” on page 254.
If the server health check is mistakenly detecting that your web server is “down,” but it is
actually “up,” verify that you have specified the correct SSL/TLS and port number settings
for the web server in the server farm. Also verify that the web server is configured to respond
To make server health checks for a single server, instead of configuring the policy with a
Deployment Mode of Single Server, create a server farm and add that web server as the sole
member, then select that server farm in the policy.
The green icon does not indicate whether the policy is enabled or disabled. Depending on the
operation mode, a disabled policy may block traffic from clients to the web server, effectively
causing the web server to appear to be “down” to clients, even though it is “up” to FortiWeb.
See “Enabling or disabling a policy” on page 497.
It also does not indicate both HTTP and HTTPS separately. Protocol and port number used are
according to your configuration in the server farm.