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Catalyst 6000 Family Content Switching Module Installation and Configuration Note
78-11631-02 Rev. A0
Configuring Probes for Health Monitoring
TCP Probe
A TCP probe establishes and removes connections. The
ip slb probe tcp
command
enters the TCP probe
configuration mode. All the
common
ip slb probe
commands are supported.
FTP, SMTP, and Telnet Probe
An FTP, SMTP, or Telnet probe establishes a connection to the real server and verifies that a greeting
from the application was received. The
ip slb probe
(
ftp, smtp,
or
telnet
)
command
enters the
corresponding probe configuration mode. All the
ip slb probe
common options are supported. Multiple
status ranges are supported, one command at a time.
To configure a status code to expect from the FTP, SMTP, or Telnet probe, perform this task:
DNS Probe Submode
A DNS probe sends a domain name resolve request to the real server and verifies the returned IP address.
The
ip slb probe dns
command
places the user in DNS probe configuration submode. All the ip slb
probe common options are supported except
open,
which is ignored.
Command
Purpose
Step 1
Router(config)#
ip slb probe
probe-name
tcp
Configure a TCP probe and enter the TCP probe
submode
1
.
1.
The
no
form of this command restores the defaults.
Step 2
Router(config-slb-probe-tcp)# [
expect
|
failed
|
interval
|
open
|
receive
|
retries
]
Configure the intervals to wait between probes of a
failed server and between probes. Also, specify the
time to make a TCP connection, to receive a reply
from the server, and to limit the number of retries
before considering the real server as failed.
Command
Purpose
Step 1
Router(config)#
ip slb probe
probe-name
[
ftp
|
smtp
|
telnet
]
Configure an FTP, SMTP, or Telnet probe and enter
the FTP, SMTP, or Telnet probe submode
1
.
1.
The
no
form of this command restores the defaults.
Step 2
Router(config-slb-probe-ftp)# [
expect status
min-number
[
max-number
]
|
failed
|
interval
|
retries
|
receive
]
Configure the intervals to wait between probes of a
failed server and between probes. Also, specify the
time to make a TCP connection, to receive a reply
from the server, and to limit the number of retries
before considering the real server as failed.