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Preface
The Equalizer Installation and Administration Guide is intended for people who are installing,
configuring, or administering Equalizer™ systems.
In This Guide
This guide contains the following chapters and appendices:
• Chapter 1, Overview, contains detailed descriptions of Equalizer concepts and terminology.
This chapter includes information to help you plan your Equalizer configuration. If you are
setting up Equalizer for the first time, be sure to read the Overview chapter before attempting
to install and configure your system.
• Chapter 2, Installing Equalizer, provides comprehensive instructions for installing Equalizer.
• Chapter 3, Configuring Equalizer Hardware, instructs you in setting up Equalizer to work
with your networks and servers.
• Chapter 4, Accessing Browser Controls, discusses how to use Equalizer’s HTML-based
administration interface to check Equalizer status and to change settings within Equalizer.
• Chapter 5, Configuring Equalizer Operation, tells you how to configure through the Equalizer
Administration Interface, including setting up a failover configuration.
• Chapter 6, Monitoring Equalizer Operation, describes how to view information, statistics,
and graphical displays about Equalizer’s operation.
• Chapter 7, Administering Virtual Clusters, tells you how to add and remove virtual clusters
and servers, changing load balancing options, and shutting down servers.
• Chapter 8, Working with Match Rules, shows you to create match rules that distribute requests
based on a request’s attributes.
• Chapter 9, Administering Geographic Clusters, shows you how to use the Envoy add-in to
add and remove geographic clusters and sites and change geographic load balancing and
targeting options.
• Appendix A, Using Server Agents, describes how to develop custom server agents.
• Appendix B, Using Reserved IP Addresses, describes how to configure Equalizer to distribute
requests to servers assigned IP addresses on reserved, non-routable networks.
• Appendix C, Regular Expression Format, discusses Equalizer’s regular expressions,
components, formats, and usage.
• Appendix D, HTTPS Cluster Certificates, shows you how to obtain and install certificates for
HTTPS clusters.
• Appendix E, Troubleshooting, helps you to diagnose problems with Equalizer.