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Site Name Status - Field Help

Configuration Settings

Edit any of the values on the Configuration settings panel and click Update Configuration.

Weight bound
The weight bound for all servers on this site name. The default value is 20.

Time To Live
(TTL) Set the time to live, which indicates how long another DNS should cache the resolved response. Default is 5.

Sticky time
The sticky time for this site name. Sticky time is used to create an affinity relationship between a client and a specific server. After the sticky time has been exceeded, the client may be sent to a server different from the previous. The default value is 0, meaning that the site name is not sticky.

Use Network Proximity
Determines the round-trip time between each server and the requesting client. Default is no, meaning network proximity is not determined. Once network proximity is set to yes, the following options are available:
  • Cache Life
    The amount of time a proximity response will be valid and saved in the cache. Set the cache life in seconds. Default is 1800.
  • Proximity Percent
    Sets the importance of the proximity response versus the health of the server (manager weight). Default is 50.
  • Wait for all
    Set whether to wait for all responses before responding. The default is yes.
    If set to no, a resolution will be provided based only on the manager weights.


Current Statistics

Host Name
The configured site name to which the client makes requests.

Advisor running on port
The port number on which an advisor is currently monitoring for this site name.


Proportions

The following site name proportion settings are displayed on the Proportions panel:

Proportion given to cpu:
A number from 0-100 representing the proportion of weight to be given to the cpuload metric. The default value is 50. The weight of the cpuload metric, plus the weight of memload metric, plus the weight of the advisor information, plus the weight of the system monitoring program information must total 100.

Proportion given to memory:
A number from 0-100 representing the proportion of weight to be given to the memload metric. The default value is 50. The weight of the cpuload metric, plus the weight of memload metric, plus the weight of the advisor information, plus the weight of the system monitoring program information must total 100.

Proportion given specific to the port:
A number from 0-100 representing the proportion of weight to be given to the information coming from an advisor about a port. The default value is 0. The weight of the cpuload metric, plus the weight of memload metric, plus the weight of the advisor information, plus the weight of the system monitoring program information must total 100.

Proportion given to system metrics:
A number from 0-100 representing the proportion of weight to be given to the system load determined from the Metric Server's results. The default value is 0. The weight of the cpuload metric, plus the weight of memload metric, plus the weight of the advisor information, plus the weight of the system monitoring program information must total 100.

Sum of proportions:
The sum of the above proportions. This total must equal 100.

List of System Metrics
List of configured metrics and their corresponding proportion.

To remove a system metric, highlight the system metric in the list and click remove.
To refresh the current statistics at any time, click refresh.



Lists

List of Servers
Displays the current list of servers associated with this site name; the numerical dotted decimal address (such as 9.37.52.11) and weight (such as 10) of the currently active servers. Weights are applied to all servers on a port. Requests will be distributed between servers based on their weights relative to each other. For example, if one server is set to a weight of 10 and the other to 5, the server set to 10 should get twice as many requests as the server set to 5.

To remove a server, highlight the server in the list and click remove.

List of Rules
Displays the current list of rules associated with this site name:
  • Rule name - rules that are currently active.
  • Rule priority - the priority assigned to the rule. Lower numbered priority rules are evaluated first. (A rule with a priority of 1 will be evaluated before a rule with a priority of 2.) The first rule that is satisfied will be used. Once a rule has been satisfied, no further rules are evaluated.
  • Rule type - rules types are based on things such as: client IP address, time of day, metric specific (metric avg and metric all) and always true.

To remove a rule, highlight the rule in the list and click remove.

To refresh the lists at any time, click refresh.