Avaya P333R-LB Manuel D’Utilisation

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Chapter 14
Load Balancing in the P333R-LB
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P333R-LB User’s Guide
You need to verify that the configured request results in the configured expected 
response. P333R-LB searches for the expected string only in the first packet sent 
by the server as a response to the script query.
A successful Script Health Check is defined as one with a valid expected string, 
as well as a successful completion of the TCP connection.
Note:  
In the Script Health Check query and expected-string “\r\n” denotes “enter”.
Refer to page 202 for a sample Script Health Check configuration.
Note:  
The default health check method for Application Redirection is Ping.
For the commands to configure the different Health Checks, refer to Health Check 
Commands on page 258.
Client Persistency
Persistency is a way to ensure that all traffic related to a given session, and all 
sessions of a given characteristic are served by the same server.
Client persistency is the persistency between many sessions for one client. Client 
persistency ensures that all traffic from the client is directed to the same Real Server.
Client persistency is achieved either by using naturally persistent load balancing 
schemes (such as Hash or MinMiss Hash) or by forcing persistent load balancing 
decisions on non-persistent load balancing schemes (such as Round Robin). 
Decision forcing is performed by storing the history of the latest decisions in a cache 
for a limited time, and sending the packets to the appropriate server based on 
previous load balancing decisions.
Regardless of the client persistency nature of the selected load balancing metric, 
P333R-LB offers a unique client persistency feature that is available in all load 
balancing metrics. Client persistency is based on a "persistency cache". Load 
balancing decisions are recorded in a persistency cache for a specified time 
configured by the user. When a new session that matches an entry in the persistency 
cache is processed by P333R-LB, it is directed to the same server pointed by the 
cache (provided, of course, that the server is considered healthy). 
The key to the persistency cache is based on the client IP, in combination with a 
wildcard. This allows persistency to be configured per an exact IP address, or per a 
group of addresses. For instance, in cases where clients hide behind a NAT device 
which selects NAT addresses from an address block of 255 addresses, enabling the 
persistency cache with a wildcard of 0.0.0.255 maps all clients to a single entry and a 
single Real Server.