Extreme Networks Px Series, Installation And Configuration Manual

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Px Series Application Switch Installation and Configuration Guide 5-1
5 Configuring Servers and Services
This chapter describes how to configure the real servers that will be load balanced, how
to create groups of servers and put the real servers into them, and how to create a layer
4 or layer 7 virtual service. It contains the following sections:
• Configuring Real Servers on page 5-1
• Configuring Server Groups on page 5-2
• Configuring Virtual Services on page 5-3
• Configuration Example on page 5-6
Configuring Real Servers
The real servers are the actual web or application servers that fulfill the client requests.
Typically, there are one or more identical real servers, each of which runs the same
application and contains the exact same content.
To configure a server use the following command:
config server index <number> ipaddress <ipaddress> port <number>
max-connections <number> weight <number>
• Each server must have a unique index number. The index number can be used to
perform operations on several different servers at once.
• Each server must have one IP address and port. The IP address is the actual IP
address of the server, and the port number is the IP port that the server uses to