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Device Manager Guide, Cisco ACE 4700 Series Application Control Engine Appliance

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Chapter 14 Monitoring Your Network

Monitoring Load Balancing

DM monitors load balancing and allows you to view the information associated with virtual servers, real

servers, probes, and load balancing statistics.

This section includes the following topics:

• Monitoring Load Balancing on Virtual Servers, page 14-23

• Monitoring Load Balancing on Real Servers, page 14-25

• Monitoring Load Balancing on Probes, page 14-27

• Monitoring Load Balancing Statistics, page 14-28

Monitoring Load Balancing on Virtual Servers

DM monitors load balancing and allows you to display the associated virtual server information as

shown in the following steps.

Note You can display additional load-balancing information about real servers, such as the number of servers

that are functioning properly, and probes, such as viewing if an excessing number of probes are failing,

by clicking the hyperlink in the respective columns in Table 14-6.

Procedure

Step 1 Choose Monitor > Virtual Contexts > Load Balancing > Virtual Servers.

Depending on the virtual context that you selected in the object selector, the information described in

Table 14-6 appears.

Table 14-6 Load Balancing Virtual Server Monitoring Information

Field Description

Virtual Server Name of the virtual server.

Note If a virtual server is associated with primary and backup server farms, two entries appear

in the table: One for the primary server farm and one for the backup server farm.

To view statistics for a selected virtual server, click the virtual server hyperlink. The Virtual

Server Details popup window appears containing the individual statistic, associated counter

value, and a description of the statistic. Click OK to close the popup window.

IP Address:Protocol:Port IP address, protocol and port number of the virtual server. Protocol the virtual server supports,

which can be:

• any—Indicates the virtual server is to accept connections using any IP protocol.

• tcp—Indicates that the virtual server is to accept connections that use TCP.

• udp—Indicates that the virtual server is to accept connections that use UDP.

Service Policy Policy map applied to the device.