Server Status - Field Help

Current Statistics

Server
The server is the unique IP address of the TCP server machine as either a symbolic name or in dotted-decimal format. If you use a unique name that does not resolve to an IP address, you must provide the server address.

Server address
The unique IP address of the TCP server machine as either a host name or in dotted-decimal format. If the server is not resolvable, you must provide the address of the physical server machine.

Port number
The number of the port to which this server is defined.

Cluster
The cluster name or address to which clients connect. The cluster value is either a symbolic name or in dotted-decimal format. A cluster value of 0.0.0.0 can be used to specify a wildcard cluster. Please refer to the "Use a wildcard cluster to combine server configurations" section in the Load Balancer Administration Guide for more information.

Quiesced status
Specifies whether any more connections are being sent to a server. If the server is quiesced. no connections are being sent.

Map port
The port that you are using for load balancing. Allows a client's request to be received on one port and to be transmitted on a different port on the server machine. You can load balance client requests to multiple server daemons running on the same physical machine.

Total Connections
The total number of connections on this server.

Connections per second
The current number of connections per second on this server as calculated by the manager. Note: The manager must be running.

The following server listener fields apply only when a WAS configuration file is mapped to the CBR configuration.

Listener New Weight
The server weight generated by the current manager cycle.

Listner Weight
The server weight generated during the previous manager cycle.


Configuration Settings

Edit any of the values on the Configuration Settings tab, then click Update Configuration.

Current status
The current status of the server. Possible values are:
  • Down
  • Up

Server weight
The weight for this server. This weight is used in load balancing between servers on the same port. The default value is 10. The server weights cannot be updated while the manager is running, unless the server has a fixed weight. If the fixed weight value is no, the server weight will be set by the manager.

Fixed weight
Indicates whether the server weight should stay fixed when the manager is running. The default is no. When fixed weight value is specified as no, the manager adjusts the weight for this server for optimal performance. If fixed weight is yes, the server weight is remains unchanged and is not updated by the manager.

Sticky for rule
Default is yes, which specifies that the server stays sticky when the port is designated as sticky. Setting this option to no (non-stick) overrides the sticky affinity of the port when a request is routed to a server that is experiencing an overflow.

HTTP Advisor Request
This field holds the string that is used by the HTTP advisor to query the health of the servers. The value defaults to HEAD / HTTP/1.0. It is present for all servers, but it is valid only for servers that are advised upon by the HTTP advisor.
Note: This field is disabled until an HTTP advisor is started.

HTTP Advisor Response
This field holds the string that is used by the HTTP advisor to compare to the real response received from the server. The default is HEAD / HTTP/1.0.
Note: This field is available only after you start an HTTP advisor.

Cookie Value
An arbitrary value set by the administrator that represents the server side of the cookie name/cookie value pair. The cookie value, along with the cookie name, acts as an identifier to Load Balancer allowing Network Dispatcher to send subsequent requests of a Web Site to the same server machine.

Lists

To refresh the list at any time, click refresh statistics.

List of server metrics
A list of system metrics added to the server and the results of executing those metrics on the server.