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Configuring browser-smart load balancing

HTTP requests can be directed to different servers based on browser type by inspecting the User-Agent header. For example:

GET /products/180/ HTTP/1.0
User-agent: Mozilla/3.0
Accept: text/html, image/gif, image/jpeg

Before configuring browser-smart load balancing, configure the WSM for server load balancing. See Configuring virtual server load balancing.

To configure the WSM to perform load balancing based on browser type:

  1. Enable browser-based load balancing on virtual service 80. See Configuring services for a virtual server. Set the following parameter.
    2. ­ HTTP SLB 1st = Browser
  2. Specify the browser names to be load balanced. See Defining a string for URL load balancing.
  3. Configure the real server(s) to handle the browser string(s). See Configuring a real server for URL-based load balancing.

    Note Note: If you do not add a defined string (or add the defined string any), the server will handle any request.

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