Creating a Balance Profile (Optional)

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7Leave Sticky Mode field set to Off.

8The default health check is Ping, click Next. Other available health checks are:

■Ping — Server Load Balancer periodically pings each server using ICMP Echo. The number of retries are configurable. If successive ping attempts fail, the server is marked as down and is removed from the pool of available servers.

■TCP Port — Server Load Balancer periodically attempts to establish a connection with each server using the same protocol (TCP or UDP) and port number as the server load balancing service uses. If any connection attempt fails, the server is marked as down and is removed from the pool of available servers for the service.

■HTTP URI — You can enter a URI that the Server Load Balancer periodically requests from each server. A server response is considered successful if the return code of response is within the range of

200-299. If any attempts fail, the server is marked as down and is removed from the pool of available servers for the service. This performs a more thorough check of the status of the Web servers.

■None — No health checking is performed. All Servers are assumed to be operational.

9The Balance Profile Configuration - Health Checks page appears. This page supplies default settings, which can be modified for your network, for the following fields:

■Period

This sets the number of seconds that elapse between health checks.

■Retries field

This sets the number of retries in a health check period.

■Timeout

This sets the number of seconds the Server Load Balancer waits for a health check reply from a server.

10Click Next.

11Click Finish. Your balance profile has been created.