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.
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