Backup Servers on the CSM
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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 …
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Intro to Policies on the CSM
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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 …
Getting Something Out of the CSM
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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 …
Monitoring the CSM with SNMP
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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 …
Getting Started with the Cisco CSM
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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. …