On the CSM, you can configure a vserver to use a main and backup serverfarm which is used if a serverfarm is toast. If all the RIPs in the main farm are out-of-service, the CSM will start to treat the backup farm just as if it’s configured to be the main one. Once one...
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Intro to Policies on the CSM
The CSM is pretty bad little box. It not only watches layer 4 items like TCP connections, but also talks HTTP, which you can use to do some custom, or policy-based, load balancing. Policies are the objects that make custom balancing work. Like everything else (it seems) on the CSM, a policy is an...
Getting Something Out of the CSM
My buddy told me that my site is the only place on the web with documentation on the Cisco Content Switching Module (CSM). I also noticed a few months ago that every TAC case I’ve opened on the CSM has been handled by the same guy. I seriously think that the only people in...
Monitoring the CSM with SNMP
I had an article a few weeks ago about the Cisco CSM, which is a load-balancer module for the 6500 series switches. This thing is a pretty good device, but monitoring the connections to each VIP and RIP is not very straightforward. If you have an SNMP monitoring system like Cacti or MRTG, you...
Getting Started with the Cisco CSM
Cisco’s Content Switching Module (CSM) is an application accelerator. Or is it an application networking service module? I hate those fancy buzzwords — it’s a load balancer. It’s a module for the 6500 series switches that lets you load balance services in any VLAN and can also be set up for high-availability. I could...
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