Adding a Connections per Second rule

A connections per second rule is used if you need to share some of your servers with other applications. For example, you can set two rules:

  1. If connections per second on port 80 > 100, then use these two servers
  2. If connections per second on port 80 > 2000, then use these ten servers
Or you might be using Telnet and want to remove two of your five servers for Telnet, except when the connections per second increase above a certain level. This way, your load is balanced across all five servers at peak times.
Begin range
The lower value in the range used to determine whether a rule is true. The begin range for a connections per second rule is an integer. The default is 0.

End range
The high value in the range used to determine whether a rule is true. The end range is an integer. The default value is 2 to the 32nd power minus 1.

You can use rule-based load balancing to determine when and why packets are sent to specific servers. You must always use rules with the CBR component when using the Caching Proxy. If a request is not satisfied by any existing rules, CBR will force the Caching Proxy to return an error page to the user.

You may optionally configure additional parameters for this rule type from both the GUI and the command line.