Technical data

Viewing FWLB Configuration Details and Statistics
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USING THE WEB MANAGEMENT INTERFACE
1. Log on to the device using a valid user name and password for read-write or read-only access.
2. Click on the plus sign next to Monitor in the tree view to expand the list of monitoring options.
3. Click on the plus sign next to FWLB in the tree view to expand the list of Firewall Load Balancing option links.
4. Select the Firewall Path
link. See the section above for descriptions of the information shown by this display.
Displaying the Firewall Selected by the Hashing
State information for IronClad FWLB
The Current, Local, and Partner columns show the following:
• Current shows the immediate state information.
• Local shows the normalized state information. When the current state remains unchanged for three
seconds, the current state value becomes the local state value. Local state information is used to
compute the active-standby status. The local state is usually the same as the current state; however,
the local state is a normalized version of the current state.
• Partner shows the state on the other ServerIron in the pair.
Note: These fields apply only to IronClad FWLB.
State Current, local, and active state information for the path.
• The current state indicates the immediate state information.
This is the most current information.
• The local state indicates the cumulative current states over a
three-second interval. If the current states have been the
same for the previous three seconds, the state is shown in
the Local column.
• The partner state.
In each column, the state can be one of the following:
• 0 – Unknown. Generally, this indicates that the link is down.
• 3 – The ServerIron is in standby mode for the firewall group.
• 5 – The ServerIron is in active mode for the firewall group.
Priority The IronClad FWLB priority for the firewalls in the firewall group. The
ServerIron with the higher priority for the group ID the default active
ServerIron for the group.
Path-cnt The number of firewall paths.
Active path cnt The number of paths from this ServerIron that go to active
ServerIrons. A path that goes to a ServerIron that is in standby mode
is not counted in this statistic.
list The path IDs of the active paths.
Table 9.1: FWLB Path Information (Continued)
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