L7 Service
A Layer 7 service is a set of listeners.
Service attributes and options define session behavior on the client side of the load balancer, such as maximum number of accepted simultaneous sessions, choice of server farm, and timeouts on the client side.
Service are identified by a name. Allowed characters are alpha-numerics dot, dash, and underscore.
continuous-statistics
Definition: Continuous traffic statistics updates
Type:
Default value: disabled, which means traffic counters are incremented once a session is completed.
Value | Description |
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enabled | Enable continuous traffic statistics monitoring |
protocol
Definition: Protocol analyzer
Type: enum
Default value: Layer 4 protocol TCP
Value | Description |
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tcp | Layer 4 protocol TCP analyzer |
http | Layer 7 protocol HTTP analyzer |
log
Definition: Traffic logs
Type:
Default value: Logs are disabled
Value | Description |
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enabled | Logs are enabled |
log-format
Definition: Use log format if logs are enabled
Type: enum
Default value: basic log format
Value | Description |
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tcp | Advanced TCP log format |
http | Advanced HTTP log format (fall back to tcp mode if protocolnot set to http) |
clf | Use common log format defined by Apache (fall back to tcp mode if protocol not set to http) |
log-ignore-null
Definition: Prevent logging of open/closed empty connections (no traffic)
Type: enum
Default value: Empty connections are logged
Value | Description |
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enabled | Log for empty connections are ignored |
disabled | Empty connections are logged |
http-connection-mode
Definition: Defines HTTPkeepalive behavior
Type: enum
Default value: tunnel
Value | Description |
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tunnel | Connection header is left untouched and body is ignored. |
passive-close | Connection header is changed and body is ignored. |
server-close | Connection header set, body scanned, and client-side keep-alive is made possible regardless of server-side capabilities. |
forced-close | Connection header set, body scanned, and connection closed. |
http-pretend-keepalive
Definition: HTTP keepalive announced to the server regardless keepalive status.
Type: enum
Default value: disabled
Value | Description |
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enabled | Keepalive announcements are enabled |
disabled | Keepalive announcements are disabled |
client-inactivity-timeout
Definition: Maximum inactivity time on the client side.
Type: integer
Default value: No timeout
Particular value: 0 means no timeout
http-request-timeout
Definition: Maximum time to wait for an entire and valid HTTP request (slowlorys protection)
Type: integer
Default value: no timeout
Particular value: 0 means no timeout
max-connections
Definition: Maximum simultaneous sessions accepted on this service.
Type: integer
Default value: No limit
tcpreq-inspect-delay
Definition: Set the maximum allowed time to wait for data from the client during content inspection.
Type: integer
Default value: 0
default-farm
Definition: Default farm used to process requests.
Type: integer
Default value: If there is no default farm, connections are closed.
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