User's Manual

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HTTP connections will be issued to test connectivity with configurable URLs and strings to match.
URL1
WAN Settings>WAN Edit>Health Check Settings>URL1
The URL will be retrieved when performing an HTTP health check. When
String to
Match
is left blank, a health check will pass if the HTTP return code is between 200
and 299 (Note: HTTP redirection codes 301 or 302 are treated as failures). When
String to Match is filled, a health check will pass if the HTTP return code is between
200 and 299 and if the HTTP response content contains the string.
URL 2
WAN Settings>WAN Edit>Health Check Settings>URL2
If URL2 is also provided, a health check will pass if either one of the tests passed.
Other Health Check Settings
Timeout
This setting specifies the timeout in seconds for ping/DNS lookup requests. The
default timeout is
5 seconds
.
Health Check
Interval
This setting specifies the time interval in seconds between ping or DNS lookup
requests. The default health check interval is 5 seconds.
Health Check
Retries
This setting specifies the number of consecutive ping/DNS lookup timeouts after
which the Peplink Balance will treat the corresponding WAN connection as down.
Default health retries is set to 3. Using the default Health Retries setting of 3
, the
correspond
ing WAN connection will be treated as down after three consecutive
timeouts.
Recovery Retries
This setting specifies the number of consecutive successful ping/DNS lookup
responses that must be received before the Peplink Balance treats a previously
down WAN connection as up again. By default, Recover Retries is set to 3
. Using
the default setting, a WAN connection that is treated as down will be considered as
up again upon receiving three consecutive successful ping/DNS lookup responses.