Coyote Point Systems Equalizer GX Series, Administration Manual

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Testing Your Basic Configuration
Once you have installed and configured Equalizer and your servers, perform tests to verify that
Equalizer is working properly.
To perform these tests, you need the following:
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A test machine on the internal network (the same physical network as the servers; one of
the server machines can be used for this purpose).
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If you have a two-network configuration, a test machine on the external network.
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A client machine somewhere on the Internet, to simulate a “real-world” client. This machine
should be set up so that the only way it can communicate with your servers or Equalizer is
through your Internet router.
Then follow these steps:
1. Ping Equalizer’s external address (if configured) from a host on the external network inter-
face address.
2. Ping Equalizer’s internal address from a host on the internal network interface address.
3. If DNS is configured, ping a host on the Internet (e.g.,
www.coyotepoint.com
)
from Equal-
izerto ensure that DNS and the network gateway are functioning properly.
4. From the internal-network test machine, ping the physical IP address of each server. You
should be able to successfully ping all of the servers from the test machine.
5. From the internal-network test machine, ping the server aliases on each of the servers. You
should be able to successfully ping all of the servers from the test machine using their ali-
ases.
6. From the internal test machine and each of the servers, ping the Equalizer address that you
use as the default gateway on your servers. (If you use a two-network topology, this will be
Equalizer’s internal address or failover alias.)
7. From the internal-network test machine, connect to the server aliases on service ports of
running daemons (you may need to configure telnet or ssh services on Windows servers).
You should be able to connect successfully to the server aliases.
8. If you use a two-network configuration: From the external-network test machine, ping a
physical server IP address using
ping -R
to trace the route of the ping. The EqualizerIP
address should appear in the list of interfaces that the ping packet traverses. You can also
use the
traceroute
(UNIX) or
tracert
(Windows) tools to perform this test.
9. Log into the GUI on either the external (if configured) or internal interfaces, as described in
"Logging In"
on page 230.
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