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Device Manager Guide, Cisco ACE 4700 Series Application Control Engine Appliance
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Chapter 6 Configuring Real Servers and Server Farms
Configuring Health Monitoring
Step 5 Enter health monitoring general attributes (see Table 6-10).
Note Click More Settings to access the additional general attributes for the selected probe type. By default,
the Device Manager hides the probe attributes with default values and the probe attributes which are not
commonly used.
Table 6-10 Health Monitoring General Attributes
Field Action
Description Enter a description for this probe. Valid entries are unquoted alphanumeric text
strings with no spaces and a maximum of 240 characters.
Probe Interval
(Seconds)
Enter the number of seconds that the ACE is to wait before sending another probe
to a server marked as passed. Valid entries are from 2 to 65535 for all probe types
except the VM probe, which has a range from 300 to 65535.
The default is 15 for all probe types except the VM probe, which has a default of
300 seconds.
Pass Detect
Interval (Seconds)
Enter the number of seconds that the ACE is to wait before sending another probe
to a server marked as failed. Valid entries are integers from 2 to 65535 with a
default of 60.
Note This field is not applicable for the VM probe type.
Fail Detect Enter the consecutive number of times that an ACE must detect that probes have
failed to contact a server before marking the server as failed. Valid entries are
integers from 1 to 65535 with a default of 3.
Note This field is not applicable for the VM probe type.