Configuring the WSM using Device Manager

Health Checking

This chapter describes the WSM health checks, how they affect the server and application port states, and how to configure health checks. This section includes the following topics:

• About health checking
• Configuring a health check for a real server group
• Modifying the health check interval and retries
• ICMP health checking
• ARP health checking
• Direct server return health checking
• Link health checking
• TCP health checking
• Script-based health checking
• Application health checking

See also:

• Server load balancing basics
• Virtual server load balancing
• Load balancing special services
• Extending SLB topologies