Configuring the WSM using Device Manager

URL-based server load balancing

URL-based SLB directs the WSM to make load-balancing decisions on the entire path and filename of each URL.

Note: The WSM supports both HTTP 1.0 and HTTP 1.1 requests.

For URL matching, you can configure up to 128 strings of 40 bytes each. Each URL Web request is then examined against the URL strings defined for each real server. URL requests are load-balanced among multiple servers matching the URL, according to the load balancing metric configured for the real server group (Least Connections is the default).

The figure below illustrates the delivery of the following requests:

Requests with ".cgi" in the URL go to real servers 3 and 4.
Requests with the string "images" in the URL go to real servers 1 and 2.
Requests for URLs starting with "/product:" go to real servers 2, 3, and 5.
Requests containing URLs with anything else go to real servers 1, 2, 3, and 4. These servers have been defined with the "any" string.