There are three different ways that a CSM checks for the health of the servers — active probes, inband health checking, and inband HTTP monitoring. Let’s talk about active probes. Active probes (or just probes) typically send traffic to one of the RIPs of a…
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Aaron does lots of stuff and, therefore, does nothing well. He's trying, though.
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We have a location that’s a few blocks down from the main office here, and we were reviewing the circuit size to make sure it was sized properly. Since not one person knows what’s going on and the trending graphs gave us conflicting details, one…
We ran into this today, and, though I knew it existed, I never actually saw it in the wild. I’m talking about MAC access-lists. In the example setup, we have a DMZ off of a firewall that contains a whole mess of servers — email,…
Like (nearly) everything in the Cisco world, you can set up your CSM to fail over to another module when the primary dies a horrible death. You can have two in the same chassis or even have them in separate chassis — the process is…
A few articles ago, we discussed getting logging up and running on your IOS box. Part of the discussion was actually having the device log remotely to a box somewhere, but that’s kind of worthless without a properly (for definitions of proper) configured syslog server. …
That’s an awesome title, eh? I’ve mentioned a router-on-a-stick before but not a data-center-on-a-stick (DCOAS). This is one of those Cisco terms I ran across a while ago and is a group of servers sort of sticking out on their own behind a load balancer…
I like logging on an IOS device. I like to look at the buffer and tell you that your interface went down 30 seconds ago. I like to look on the box and see that BGP with my Internet provider has been flapping since 02:13ET. …
At the office, we reprovision servers like it’s going out of style. It happens so often that my cabling documentation rarely matches what’s actually out in field, which is a pretty big problem when you’re trying to find to what switch port a server is…
Alright, that’s an exaggeration, but screen is pretty freaking cool. It’s an app that’s (usually) run under Linux that lets you run commands then detach from that session and reattach later. It doesn’t seem like much, but a few examples can show what it does…
On the CSM, you can configure a vserver to use a main and backup serverfarm which is used if a serverfarm is toast. If all the RIPs in the main farm are out-of-service, the CSM will start to treat the backup farm just as if…