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ExtremeWarePx1 1.2 Command Reference Guide 109
3 Commands for Configuring Servers and
Services
This chapter describes the following commands:
¥ Commands for conÞguring servers
¥ Commands for creating and conÞguring server groups
¥ Commands for creating and conÞguring virtual services
Servers
The real servers are the actual web or application servers that fulÞll the client requests. Typically, one or
more identical real servers run the same application and contain the exact same content. ConÞguring a
server makes a real server available to the switch, assigns the server a unique index, and sets properties
of the server. The switch identiÞes servers by index. For each server index, the switch keeps track of the
IP address and port number of the corresponding real server. Once a server has been conÞgured, it can
be identiÞed in commands either by its index number or by the combination of its IP address and port
number.
The following commands conÞgure servers.
configure server Configures one or more servers, establishing a correspondence between each
server’s index and the IP address and port number of the corresponding real
server.
configure server default Configures the global default values for server properties.
unconfigure server Removes one or more servers from the system.