F5 -- New Pool Options

Front 1

Name

Back 1

Type the name of the pool.

Front 2

Description

Back 2

Specifies descriptive text that identifies the pool.

Front 3

Health Monitors

Back 3

Specifies an association between a health or performance monitor and an entire pool, rather than with individual pool members.

Front 4

Availability Requitement

Back 4

Specify the number of monitors that must report a pool member as being available before that member is defined as being in an up state. The default setting All requires all monitors to be successful.

Front 5

Allow SNAT

Back 5

Specifies whether SNATs are automatically enabled or disabled for any connections using this pool.

Front 6

Allow NAT

Back 6

Specifies whether NATs are automatically enabled or disabled for any connections using this pool.

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Action on Service Down

Back 7

Specifies how the system should respond when the target pool member becomes unavailable.

None, Reject (icmp), Drop, Reselect (move to alternate pool)

Front 8

Slow Ramp Time

Back 8

Specifies the duration during which the system sends less traffic to a newly-enabled pool member. The amount of traffic is based on the ratio of how long the pool member has been available compared to the slow ramp time, in seconds.

Front 9

IP ToS to Client

Back 9

Specifies whether the system sets a Type of Service (ToS) level within a packet sent to the client, based on the targeted pool.

Front 10

IP ToS to Server

Back 10

Specifies whether the system sets a Type of Service (ToS) level within a packet sent to the server, based on the targeted pool.

Front 11

Link QoS to Client

Back 11

Specifies whether the system sets a Quality of Service (QoS) level within a packet sent to the client, based on the targeted pool.

(0-7)

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Link QoS to Server

Back 12

Specifies whether the system sets a Quality of Service (QoS) level within a packet sent to the server, based on the targeted pool.

Front 13

Reselect Tries

Back 13

Specifies the number of times the system tries to contact a new pool member after a passive failure. A passive failure consists of a server-connect failure or a failure to receive a data response within a user-specified interval.

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Enable Request Queueing

Back 14

Enables TCP request queueing.

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Request Queue Depth

Back 15

Specifies the maximum number of connection requests allowed in the queue.

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Request Queue Timeout

Back 16

Specifies the maximum number of milliseconds that a connection request can be queued until capacity becomes available, whereupon the connection request is removed from the queue and reset.

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IP Encapsulation

Back 17

Specifies the IP encapsulation using either IPIP (IP encapsulation within IP, RFC 2003) or GRE (Generic Router Encapsulation, RFC 2784) on outbound packets (BIG-IP system to server-pool member)

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Load Balancing Method

Back 18

Specifies the load balancing method. The default is Round Robin.

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Ignore Persisted Weight

Back 19

Specifies how the system handles persisted connection when calculating ratio-based load-balancing.

Checked or Unchecked

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Priority Group Activation

Back 20

Specifies whether the system load balances traffic according to the priority number assigned to the pool member.