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7.10 Modify Health Check
User may change the healthcheck behavior by modify and enable custom healthck, modifying
the HTTP server respond code behavior, and change the healthcheck TCP timeout value.
To modify the healthcheck timeout:
To modify the custom healthcheck:
URL for Custom Service Check:
Sometimes the WebMux built-in server health check is not enough for special needs. When a
ASP/JSP server’s output depends on the database server and the database server connection is
down, one might want to reduce the incoming traffic to the server, suspend new traffic to the
server, or totally redirect incoming traffic to a different server. To accomplish that, the
WebMux allows a farm set up using “custom defined service.” It will then call the CGI’s
URL on the server defined in this field. This will involve a custom developed CGI code by
your software developer on your server and place it on the path. Upon success the page
should return HTTP response code 200 and a plain text page beginning with one of the