Adding an Active Connections rule

An active connections rule is based on the total number of active connections for the port. You may want to use rules based on the total active connections on a port if your servers get overloaded and start throwing packets away. Certain Web servers will continue to accept connections even though they do not have enough threads to respond to the request. As a result, the client requests time out and the customer going to you Web site is not served. Use rules based on active connections to balance capacity within a pool of servers.

Begin range
The lower value in the range used to determine whether a rule is true. The begin range for an active connections 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.