Rule Status - Field Help

Current Statistics

Name
The name you chose for the rule. This name can contain any alphanumeric character, underscore, hyphen, or period. It may be from 1 to 20 characters and cannot contain any blanks.
Rule type
The type of the rule. Possible types are:
  • Active connections (total)
    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 your Web site is not served. Use rules based on active connections to balance capacity within a pool of servers.
  • Always True
    An always true rule will always be selected, unless all the servers associated with it are down. For this reason, it should typically be set at a lower priority than other rules. (Think of it as an else statement in programming logic.)
Times fired
The number of times this rule has fired either since it was added or since the last time the executor was restarted.
Total active connections
The current total number of active connections for this port. Applicable to the total connections, active connections and reserved bandwidth rules only.
Connections per second
The current number of connections per second for this port. Applicable to the total connections, active connections and reserved bandwidth rules only.

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



Configuration Settings

If applicable, edit any of the values on the Rule Status panel and click Update Configuration.

Begin range
The lower value in the range used to determine whether or not the rule is true.
  • active connections - an integer. The default value is 0.
End range
The higher value in the range used to determine whether or not the rule is true.
  • active connections - an integer. The default value is 2 to the 32nd power minus 1.
Priority (optional)
An integer representing the order in which rules are reviewed. If no priority is given to the first rule you set, by default it will be given a priority value of 1 and evaluated first. The next rule will then be given a priority value of 11 and evaluated second, (last priority value + 10, in this case 1 + 10), third rule = 21, fourth rule = 31, and so forth. The rules are evaluated in numerical order, lower numbers taking precedence over higher ones.
Level to evaluate
Valid only for Total Connections, Active Connections and Reserved Bandwidth. Choose between evaluating all of the servers on the port or only the servers on the rule. The Total Connections (Per Second) rule also allows the evaluation to be based on the current servers on the rule with a positive weight.


Lists

List of Servers
Shows the addresses of servers currently associated with the rule.
To remove a server, highlight the server in the list and click remove.