ACE 4710 MAC Address

All physical interfaces on ACE 4710 share the same MAC address. Also, VIP addresses share the same MAC address. ACE 4710 is connected to a switch. How is the switch supposed to know which interface to send the packet to if it is doing layer2 switching.
Thank you in advance for the explanation.

You can't put 2 interfaces in the same vlan
switch/Admin(config-if)# switchport access vlan 20
vlan 20 is associated with GigabitEthernet 1/3.
switch/Admin(config-if)#
So, the L2 switch will have an entry for the mac-address in each vlan and this entry can point to different interfaces.
Gilles.

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ACE virtual mac address allocation

We're running ACE SM and seeing all the VIP addresses, NAT addresses and alias addresses in the ARP table below being assigned the same virtual MAC address. How then would a packet find the correct source/destination if all these MAC addresses are the same?
IP ADDRESS      MAC-ADDRESS        Interface Type      Encap NextArp(s) Status
================================================================================
204.107.54.1    00.24.f9.03.08.00 vlan810   GATEWAY    300    263 sec      up
204.107.54.4    00.1e.13.3c.ab.80 vlan810   LEARNED    24     7631 sec     up
204.107.54.5    00.1e.13.3c.a6.00 vlan810   LEARNED    331    8992 sec     up
204.107.55.5    00.1f.ca.7b.70.23 vlan810   INTERFACE LOCAL     _         up
204.107.55.6    00.0b.fc.fe.1b.05 vlan810   ALIAS      LOCAL     _         up
204.107.54.20   00.0b.fc.fe.1b.05 vlan810   VSERVER    LOCAL     _         up
204.107.54.21   00.0b.fc.fe.1b.05 vlan810   VSERVER    LOCAL     _         up
204.107.54.22   00.0b.fc.fe.1b.05 vlan810   VSERVER    LOCAL     _         up
204.107.54.23   00.0b.fc.fe.1b.05 vlan810   VSERVER    LOCAL     _         up
204.107.54.31   00.0b.fc.fe.1b.05 vlan810   VSERVER    LOCAL     _         up
204.107.54.32   00.0b.fc.fe.1b.05 vlan810   VSERVER    LOCAL     _         up
204.107.54.33   00.0b.fc.fe.1b.05 vlan810   VSERVER    LOCAL     _         up
Thanks.

ACE uses the concept of Virtual Mac Addresses , which are the addresses used for VIP addresses, NAT addresses (dynamic and static), and alias addresses These will all always use a MAC address in the following form 00.0b.fc.fe.1b.
If you are using single ACE SM in a cat6k box, and you are seeing duplicate MAC, its normal. Cat6k Supervisor is L2 Adjacent with ACE, Any traffic received by Supervisor in VLAN 810 will be sent to ACE and then ACE will determine which VIP that packet is going to.
Real Problem will come when you are using multiple ACE modules in Same Chassis or you are doing Chassis to Chassis ACE Redundancy. In such situation your Cat6k Switch will have duplicate MAC entries.
To avoid this, you need to keep your Contexts in diffrent context groups in each Module i.e something like this
ft group 5
peer 1
priority X
associate-context default3
inservice

ACE multiple mac-address for a single IP (solaris ipmp)

Dear All,
We are triing to load ballance smtp traffic to solaris mail servers that are using ip multipath in bridge mode configuration.Multipath is configured so that only one of the redundant interfaces replies to arp request. Therefore all of the traffic come to the solaris from the ACE on the primary interface, but solaris uses the secondary interface too with different mac address to answer.The load ballancing working correctly it does not matter if solaris answers the request with its primary (MAC known by ACE) or secondary interface (MAC not know by ACE). But if the solaris wants to create a tcp session that is not balanced but go through the ACE with secondary interface which mac-address is not know by ARP in the ACE, the packets are silently discarded. There is no logs about it.
Please if someone could know this behavior answer.
Regards,
szicsu

If you do a 'show np 1 me-stat '-socm'' you will see a counter catching the packet drops.
Drop [mac lookup fail]: 30 0
Drop [route lookup fail]: 14316 0
We can't setup connection for unknown mac-address or if we do not have a route.
We need to first learn the mac-address through the arp request/response mechanism.
This is during this process that the encap id is associated with the mac-address.
Without that encapid we can't create the connection to flow the traffic.
You can try to disable normalization to see if that could help, but I can't guarantee it.
Gilles.

ACE How can we do a static arp to multicast mac address?

I have a architecture that uses ACE to do Firewall Load Balancing. I need to add a static map of a VIP IP to a multicast mac address (Microsoft servers with NLB in multicast mode). The ACE does not accept multicast mac address in the static arp statement, anybody knows why? Is there any other way to do that?
Regards,
Artur Pinto

Hi,
The ACE doesn't support multicast MAC addresses. This is a limitation impose by the hardware used on the boards. Syed has previously proposed a workaround at https://supportforums.cisco.com/message/464174#464174 . I don't know if that will be applicable in your case.
HTH
Cathy

ACE 4710 Pls need help

Hi,
Pls can you help me find out where is my error in the below:
I have an ACE 4710. Also I have 2 Bluecoat Proxy SG working in proxy mode. I want the ACE to be the Load Balancer for these 2 Proxy SG. I configure the ACE as below and put the vip-address in the Internet Explorer LAN Settings but it did not work. Also I configure Policy-based Routing on the Core Switch (for any http or https traffic going through core apply set ip next-hop vip-address).
Core SW SVI:
interface Vlan56
description BC Proxy
ip address 10.0.1.33 255.255.255.224
interface Vlan57
description ACE-LB-Alias
ip address 10.0.1.65 255.255.255.224
ACE 4710:
hostname VSS-ACE-BC-01
interface gigabitEthernet 1/1
description Management
speed 1000M
duplex FULL
switchport access vlan 101
no shutdown
interface gigabitEthernet 1/2
description User Side
speed 1000M
duplex FULL
switchport access vlan 56
no shutdown
interface gigabitEthernet 1/3
description BC Proxy Side
speed 1000M
duplex FULL
switchport access vlan 57
no shutdown
interface gigabitEthernet 1/4
description Failover
speed 1000M
duplex FULL
ft-port vlan 900
no shutdown
context Admin
member sticky
access-list external line 10 extended permit ip any any
access-list external line 20 extended permit icmp any any
access-list external line 30 extended permit tcp any any
access-list external line 40 extended permit udp any any
access-list internal line 10 extended permit ip any any
access-list internal line 20 extended permit icmp any any
access-list internal line 30 extended permit tcp any any
access-list internal line 40 extended permit udp any any
probe tcp web443
port 443
interval 30
faildetect 1
passdetect interval 30
passdetect count 1
open 1
probe tcp web8080
port 8080
interval 30
faildetect 1
passdetect interval 30
passdetect count 1
open 1
rserver host BC01
ip address 10.0.1.41
inservice
rserver host BC02
ip address 10.0.1.42
inservice
serverfarm host web443
probe web443
rserver BC01
    inservice
rserver BC02
    inservice
serverfarm host web8080
probe web8080
rserver BC01
    inservice
rserver BC02
    inservice
sticky ip-netmask 255.255.255.255 address source group1
replicate sticky
serverfarm web8080
sticky ip-netmask 255.255.255.255 address source group2
replicate sticky
serverfarm web443
class-map type management match-any REMOTE_ACCESS
2 match protocol telnet any
3 match protocol ssh any
4 match protocol icmp any
5 match protocol http any
6 match protocol snmp any
class-map match-all external-web
2 match virtual-address 10.0.1.70 any
class-map match-all external-web443
2 match virtual-address 10.0.1.70 any
class-map match-any nat-class
2 match access-list external
policy-map type management first-match REMOTE_MGMT
class REMOTE_ACCESS
    permit
policy-map type loadbalance http first-match slb
class class-default
    sticky-serverfarm group1
policy-map type loadbalance http first-match slb443
class class-default
    sticky-serverfarm group2
policy-map multi-match external-access
class nat-class
    nat dynamic 1 vlan 57
class external-web
    loadbalance vip inservice
    loadbalance policy slb
class external-web443
    loadbalance vip inservice
    loadbalance policy slb443
timeout xlate 120
interface vlan 56
description Server-Side
ip address 10.0.1.43 255.255.255.224
ip verify reverse-path
alias 10.0.1.40 255.255.255.224
peer ip address 10.0.1.44 255.255.255.224
mac-address autogenerate
access-group input internal
service-policy input REMOTE_MGMT
no shutdown
interface vlan 57
description VIP-Interface
ip address 10.0.1.67 255.255.255.224
alias 10.0.1.66 255.255.255.224
peer ip address 10.0.1.68 255.255.255.224
mac-address autogenerate
access-group input external
service-policy input external-access
service-policy input REMOTE_MGMT
no shutdown
interface vlan 101
description Management
ip address 10.220.1.131 255.255.255.0
alias 10.220.1.133 255.255.255.0
peer ip address 10.220.1.132 255.255.255.0
mac-address autogenerate
service-policy input REMOTE_MGMT
no shutdown
ft interface vlan 900
ip address 172.20.100.1 255.255.255.252
peer ip address 172.20.100.2 255.255.255.252
no shutdown
ft peer 1
heartbeat interval 300
heartbeat count 20
ft-interface vlan 900
ft group 1
peer 1
priority 200
peer priority 150
associate-context Admin
inservice
ip route 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 10.0.1.65

I see that you used:
nat dynamic 1 vlan 57
Where is the nat pool on Vlan 57 ?
May be you can try to assign that and that should help.
Something like below:
Interface vlan 57
nat-pool 1 10.0.1.93 10.0.1.93 netmask 255.255.255.224 pat
regards,
Ajay Kumar

Rservers initiated traffic not sourcing the traffic as VIP in Ace 4710

One of the feature of our application is that our Application Server initiate text message to our devices sourcing from UDP 1120 and device need to see the message come from a specific pubic IP (2.2.2.2) with UDP port 1120 and reply back with the same Public IP (2.2.2.2) with UDP port 1120.The problem is we can make that happen if we have only one server in our ACE Serverfarm when we do a SNAT the real servers with the VIP address (10.1.246.32) but it does not work when we have more than one server in the Serverfarm. Since we have 2 servers, i cannot nat the real servers with the VIP address, if I do a PAT, obviously it is changing the source port of the request.
Note: This setup is working fine with the Cisco Content Switch module running on chasis 6509. When I sniff the traffic initiated from the server coming the CSM load balancer, it is sourcing the traffic as the VIP and the source port remains the same by default but this is not the case with ACE 4710
Traffic flow as follows
===============
ACE 4710                                                       FWSM (Firewall static NAT)                    Device ( configured with 2.2.2.2:1120 (udp) to snd/rcv msg)
                                             VIP
Rserver 1   - 10.1.104.80       10.1.246.32           10.1.246.32 < - > 2.2.2.2                              1.1.1.1
Rserver 2   - 10.1.104.81c
---------------------------------------------------------->           ------------------------------->                      - traffic flow from server to the device when we send msg
Configs:
======
rserver host server1
ip address 10.1.104.80
inservice
rserver host server2
ip address 10.1.104.81
inservice
serverfarm host SFARM
failaction purge
probe ICMP
rserver server1
    inservice
rserver server2
    inservice
access-list TEST-1120 line 8 extended permit udp host 10.1.104.80 eq 1120 any
access-list TEST-1120 line 16 extended permit udp host 10.1.104.81 eq 1120 any
parameter-map type connection UDP_TIMEOUT
set timeout inactivity 3600
sticky ip-netmask 255.255.255.255 address source STKY-SFARM
serverfarm SFARM
timeout 180
replicate sticky
class-map match-all CLS-SFARM
2 match virtual-address 10.1.246.32 udp eq 1120
class-map match-all SERVERNAT
2 match access-list TEST-1120
policy-map type loadbalance first-match POL-SFARM
class class-default
    sticky-serverfarm STKY-SFARM
policy-map multi-match POL-LB
class CLS-SFARM
    loadbalance vip inservice
    loadbalance policy POL-SFARM
    loadbalance vip icmp-reply active
    connection advanced-options UDP_TIMEOUT
class SERVERNAT
   nat dynamic 1 vlan 244
int vlan 244
ip address 10.1.246.2 255.255.255.0
service-policy input POL-LB
nat-pool 1 10.1.246.32 10.1.246.32 netmask 255.255.255.255
mac-sticky enable
no icmp-guard
no shut
interface vlan 2506
ip address 10.1.104.2 255.255.255.0
service-policy input POL-LB
mac-sticky enable
no icmp-guard
no shut

I see in CSS, they are able to nat the source ip address with VIP and port-mapping diabled. How do I implement
portmap disable in ACE 4710
Disabling Port Mapping
By default, the CSS NATs source IP addresses and PATs source ports for a configured source group. If you configure the portmap disablecommand in a source group, the CSS performs NAT on the source IP addresses but does not perform PAT on the source ports of UDP traffic that matches on that source group.
For UDP applications with high-numbered assigned ports (for example, SIP and WAP), we recommend that you preserve those port numbers by configuring destination services in source groups instead of using the portmap disable command. Destination services cause the CSS to NAT the client source ports, but not the destination ports. For information about configuring destination services,

ACE 4710 Active/Active using virtual partitions

Hi
I am completely new to the Cisco ACE devices but have been asked to look at deploying them. I have read the ACE virtual partioning paper which covers the ACE module, and it mentions the following;
"In an active/active high-availability design, both the primary and backup Cisco ACE modules are active simultaneously. The active virtual partitions are distributed across both modules, such that approximately half are active on the primary module and the remaining are active on the backup module."
My question is - does the same resilience model work the same using the Cisco 4710 appliances? I.e. can we split virtual partions across two physical devices thereby having an active/active scenario.
Apologies if this seems a very basic question.
Cheers
TS

Hi Tony
Yes, you can do the same on Appliance. One point which can be important for A/A implementation is that it's a good practice to have shared-vlan-hostid configured on ACEs.
Briefly - When ACE boots it randomly picks up a one out of 16 pools of MAC addresses and use them on interfaces. So, if you have contexts which are sharing the same VLAN on different ACEs , there is a possibility that both of ACEs pick up the same pool and you will have duplicated MAC addresses.
So you should configure something like this in Admin context (only on ACE which has Admin context active, configuration starts working only after reload of both devices) :
shared-vlan-hostid 1
peer shared-vlan-hostid 2
More detailed abou this quesiton you can see here :
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/interfaces_modules/services_modules/ace/vA4_2_0/configuration/administration/guide/redundcy.html#wp1076704

Ace 4710 strange behaviour

Hi, We have two ACE-4710-K9 (named LB01 and LB02) configured in HA mode. Besides Admin, on each of them there are tree context configured, named, ACADEMIC, COMMERCIAL, STREAMING. On LB01 the active context is ACADEMIC. On LB02 the active contexts are COMMERCIAL and STREAMING. Each context is configured with a FrontEnd and a BackEnd Vlan interface, and a "management" Vlan interface used for accessing and monitoring the device and for the downloading of the needed ssl certificates. Recently we upgraded the devices to Version A3(2.6) form a previous A3(2.4). After that upgrade we experienced some strange behaviour. From the context in STANDBY state we are not able to ping the host on the "management" Vlan interface, while there is no problem on the other Vlans. We see that the ICMP packets are sent to the Vlan, are replayed by the remote host BUT are not received at all on the LB01 or LB02. No messages in the log. Trying with 5 consecutive (failed) ping we can see that the counters of unicast packet output on LB01/LB02 Vlan is incremented by 5 BUT the unicast packets input counters is unchanged even if the remote host sent the replays. In the STREAMING context this behaviour isn't constant, ie the ping *sometimes* starts working for a few second and then returns to stop. In the other standby context the ping never works instead. In the active context all works fine. This strange problem prevents us to load the ssl certificates in the STANDBY context from the "management" Vlan. We was not able to find any reference to a similar problem in the Cisco documentation or Tac collection, so we are curious to know wheter someone else experienced such a behaviour. Thank you and best regards. Alessandro Asson - CINECA

Thanks,
I see you are using shared VLAN config in both ACE.
Same VLAN 1000 is used for both Admin and streaming context.
In this config, you may need to use the shared-vlan-host-id command as explained here:
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/app_ntwk_services/data_center_app_services/ace_appliances/vA3_1_0/configuration/routing_bridging/guide/vlansif.html#wp1025243
In fact as explained:
'By default, the bank of MAC addresses that the ACE uses is randomly selected at boot time. However, if you configure two ACE appliances in the same Layer 2 network and they are using shared VLANs, the ACEs may select the same address bank, which results in the use of the same MAC addresses. To avoid this conflict, you must configure the bank that the ACEs will use.'
This would also reply to your question in the readme file:
SHOW ARP TABLE ON THE D01,D02,D07 ROUTERS SHOWS THE SAME MAC ADDRESS FOR
BOTH IP ADDRESSES OF LB01 AND LB02: is that normal ??
Hope this helps,
Dom.

ACE 4710 FT failover failure

Hello,
I am running redundant ACE 4710 appliances running A3(2.7). I have five FT groups configured along with FT Tracking and when the vlans fail due to physical links being down, the contexts to do not failover. If one of the ACE boxes fail completely, failover works fine. I have included the FT config from one of the contexts below. I have a case open with TAC and the Engineer is suggesting the use of a query interface in additon to FT Tracking. We have had two incidents on separate contexts where we lost a physical interface on the primary ACE, one for the maintenance of the core switch, the other was a cable disconnect and we are unable to understand why the indivdual context didn't failover. Any ideas would be much appreciated. Let me know if more info/configs are needed.
Dave
ft interface vlan 900
ip address 10.10.10.1 255.255.255.0
peer ip address 10.10.10.2 255.255.255.0
no shutdown
ft peer 1
heartbeat interval 300
heartbeat count 20
ft-interface vlan 900
ft group 3
peer 1
no preempt
priority 210
peer priority 120
associate-context XYZ
inservice
FT Group                     : 3
No. of Contexts             : 1
Context Name                 : XYZ
Context Id                   : 2
Configured Status           : in-service
Maintenance mode             : MAINT_MODE_OFF
My State                   : FSM_FT_STATE_ACTIVE
My Config Priority           : 210
My Net Priority             : 210
My Preempt                   : Disabled
Peer State                   : FSM_FT_STATE_STANDBY_HOT
Peer Config Priority         : 120
Peer Net Priority           : 120
Peer Preempt                 : Disabled
Peer Id                     : 1
Last State Change time       : Wed Jan 11 13:14:16 2012
Running cfg sync enabled     : Enabled
Running cfg sync status     : Running configuration sync has completed
Startup cfg sync enabled     : Enabled
Startup cfg sync status     : Startup configuration sync has completed
Bulk sync done for ARP: 0
Bulk sync done for LB: 0
Bulk sync done for ICM: 0
show int
vlan424 is up, VLAN up on the physical port
Hardware type is VLAN
MAC address is 00:1e:68:1e:ba:b7
Virtual MAC address is 00:0b:fc:fe:1b:03
Mode : routed
IP address is 10.104.224.6 netmask is 255.255.255.0
FT status is active
Description:"New Server VIP and real"
MTU: 1500 bytes
Last cleared: never
Last Changed: Sun Mar 11 01:13:12 2012
No of transitions: 3
Alias IP address is 10.104.224.5 netmask is 255.255.255.0
Peer IP address is 10.104.224.7 Peer IP netmask is 255.255.255.0
Assigned on the physical port, up on the physical port
Previous State: Sun Mar 11 00:04:57 2012, VLAN not up on the physical port
Previous State: Sun Sep 18 10:21:15 2011, administratively up
     3991888419 unicast packets input, 23734607976687 bytes
     20246934 multicast, 174801 broadcast
     0 input errors, 0 unknown, 0 ignored, 0 unicast RPF drops
     1609345958 unicast packets output, 23690663385228 bytes
     7 multicast, 55807 broadcast
     0 output errors, 0 ignored

Dave,
For tracking to work you need to have preempt enabled. Can you try enabling preempt under the ft group and test your tracking again? Another potential issue you may run into is if your tracking is not lowering the priority enough when it fails. The difference between the active and standby device is 100. If you are not decrementing the priority greater than this value even if priority is enabled it will not lower it enough to force the failover. If after enabling preempt on this group the tracking still does not work as expected send you whole config for us to look at.
Regarding the query interface; This is not a bad idea. It will help prevent an active active situation if there is a problem with the ft link between the two modules.
Thanks
Jim

Need help to Configure Cisco ACE 4710 Cluster Deployment

Dear Experts,
I'm newbie for Cisco ACE 4710, and still I'm in learning stage. Meanwhile I got chance at my work place to deploy a Cisco ACE 4710 cluster which should load balance the traffic between two Application Servers based on HTTP and HTTPS traffic. So I was looking for good deployment guide in Cisco SBA knowledge base then finall found this guide.
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/solutions/SBA/February2013/Cisco_SBA_DC_AdvancedServer-LoadBalancingDeploymentGuide-Feb2013.pdf
This guide totally fine with my required deployment model. I have same deployment environment as this guide contains with ACE cluster that connects to two Cisco 3750X (Stack) switches. But I have some confusion places in this guide
This guide follow the "One-armed mode" as a deployment method. But when I go through it further I have noticed that they have configured server VLAN as a 10.4.49.0/24 (all servers reside in it) and Client side VIP also in same VLAN which is 10.4.49.100/24 (even NAT pool also).
My confusion is, as I have learned about Cisco ACE 4710 one-armed mode deployment method, it should has two VLAN segments, one for Client side which client request come and hit the VIP and then second one for Server side. which means besically two VLANs. So please be kind enough to go through above document then tell me where is wrong, what shoud I need to do for the best. Please this is an urgent, so need your help quickly.
Thanks....!
-Amal-

Dear Kanwal,
I need quick help for you. Following are the Application LB requirements which I received from my clinet side.
Following detail required for configuring Oracle EBS Apps tier on HA:
LBR IP and Name required to configure EBS APPS Tier (i.e, ap1ebs & ap2ebs nodes)
Suggested IP and Name for LBR:
IP : 172.25.45.x [should be on same 172.25.45 subnet of ap1ebs & ap2ebs nodes]
ebiz.xxxx.lk [on port 80 for http protocol accessibility]
This LBR IP & name must be resolve and respond on DNS network
Server Farm detail for LBR Setup
Following detail will be use for configuring the LBR:
LBR IP and Name :
IP : 172.25.45.x [should be on same 172.25.45 subnet of ap1ebs & ap2ebs nodes]
ebiz.xxxx.lk [on port 80 for http protocol accessibility]
This LBR IP & name must be resolve and respond on DNS network
Server Farm Detail for LBR setup:
Server 1 (EBS App1 Node, ap1ebs):
IP : 172.25.45.19
Server Name: ap1ebs.xxxx.lk [ap1ebs hostname is an example, actual hostname will be use]
Protocol: http
Port: 8000
Server 2 (EBS App2 Node, ap2ebs):
IP : 172.25.45.20
Server Name: ap2ebs.xxxx.lk [ap2ebs hostname is an example, actual hostname will be use]
Protocol: http
Port: 8000
Since my client needs to access URL ebiz.xxxx.lk which should be resolved by IP 172.25.45.21 (virtual IP) via http (80) before they deploy the app on the two servers I just ran web service on both servers (Linux) and was trying to access http://172.25.45.21 it was working fine and gave me index.html page. Now after my client has deployed the application then when he tries to access the page http://172.25.45.21 he cannot see his main login page. But still my testing web servers are there on both servers when I type http://172.25.45.21 it will get index.html page, but not my client web login page. What can I do for this ?
Following are my latest config :
probe http Get-Method
description Check to url access /OA_HTML/OAInfo.jsp
interval 10
faildetect 2
passdetect interval 30
request method get url /OA_HTML/OAInfo.jsp
expect status 200 200
probe udp http-8000-iRDMI
description IRDMI (HTTP - 8000)
port 8000
probe http http-probe
description HTTP Probes
interval 10
faildetect 2
passdetect interval 30
passdetect count 2
request method get url /index.html
expect status 200 200
probe https https-probe
description HTTPS traffic
interval 10
faildetect 2
passdetect interval 30
passdetect count 2
ssl version all
request method get url /index.html
probe icmp icmp-probe
description ICMP PROBE FOR TO CHECK ICMP SERVICE
rserver host ebsapp1
description ebsapp1.xxxx.lk
ip address 172.25.45.19
conn-limit max 4000000 min 4000000
probe icmp-probe
probe http-probe
inservice
rserver host ebsapp2
description ebsapp2.xxxx.lk
ip address 172.25.45.20
conn-limit max 4000000 min 4000000
probe icmp-probe
probe http-probe
inservice
serverfarm host ebsppsvrfarm
description ebsapp server farm
failaction purge
predictor response app-req-to-resp samples 4
probe http-probe
probe icmp-probe
inband-health check log 5 reset 500
retcode 404 404 check log 1 reset 3
rserver ebsapp1 80
    conn-limit max 4000000 min 4000000
    probe icmp-probe
    inservice
rserver ebsapp2 80
    conn-limit max 4000000 min 4000000
    probe icmp-probe
    inservice
sticky http-cookie jsessionid HTTP-COOKIE
cookie insert browser-expire
replicate sticky
serverfarm ebsppsvrfarm
class-map type http loadbalance match-any default-compression-exclusion-mime-type
description DM generated classmap for default LB compression exclusion mime types.
2 match http url .*gif
3 match http url .*css
4 match http url .*js
5 match http url .*class
6 match http url .*jar
7 match http url .*cab
8 match http url .*txt
9 match http url .*ps
10 match http url .*vbs
11 match http url .*xsl
12 match http url .*xml
13 match http url .*pdf
14 match http url .*swf
15 match http url .*jpg
16 match http url .*jpeg
17 match http url .*jpe
18 match http url .*png
class-map match-all ebsapp-vip
2 match virtual-address 172.25.45.21 tcp eq www
class-map type management match-any remote_access
2 match protocol xml-https any
3 match protocol icmp any
4 match protocol telnet any
5 match protocol ssh any
6 match protocol http any
7 match protocol https any
8 match protocol snmp any
policy-map type management first-match remote_mgmt_allow_policy
class remote_access
    permit
policy-map type loadbalance first-match ebsapp-vip-l7slb
class default-compression-exclusion-mime-type
    serverfarm ebsppsvrfarm
class class-default
    compress default-method deflate
    sticky-serverfarm HTTP-COOKIE
policy-map multi-match int455
class ebsapp-vip
    loadbalance vip inservice
    loadbalance policy ebsapp-vip-l7slb
    loadbalance vip icmp-reply active
    nat dynamic 1 vlan 455
interface vlan 455
ip address 172.25.45.36 255.255.255.0
peer ip address 172.25.45.35 255.255.255.0
access-group input ALL
nat-pool 1 172.25.45.22 172.25.45.22 netmask 255.255.255.0 pat
service-policy input remote_mgmt_allow_policy
service-policy input int455
no shutdown
ft interface vlan 999
ip address 10.1.1.1 255.255.255.0
peer ip address 10.1.1.2 255.255.255.0
no shutdown
ft peer 1
heartbeat interval 300
heartbeat count 10
ft-interface vlan 999
ft group 1
peer 1
no preempt
priority 110
associate-context Admin
inservice
ip route 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 172.25.45.1
Hope you will reply me soon
Thanks....!
-Amal-

ACE 4710 in bridge mode not working

I am trying to configure ACE 4710 bridge mode and I am stuck up in physical interface configuration. I have configured gig1/2 of ACE as trunk port and on layer 2 switch I have assigned that interface (gig1/2) to VLAN 11. I tried trunk port also but it got disabled due to BPDU error.
I am not able to ping servers as well as gateway. Below are the topology and context configuration:
Router   (vlan 13: IP 172.16.11.254)
     |
ACE     (int gig1/2)
     |
L2 Switch
     |
Servers (vlan 11: IP 172.16.11.1 and 11.2)
Admin Context
===========
resource-class rc1
limit-resource all minimum 0.00 maximum unlimited
limit-resource sticky minimum 0.20 maximum unlimited
boot system image:c4710ace-mz.A3_2_4.bin
interface gigabitEthernet 1/1
switchport access vlan 1000
no shutdown
interface gigabitEthernet 1/2
switchport trunk allowed vlan 11,13
no shutdown
interface gigabitEthernet 1/3
shutdown
interface gigabitEthernet 1/4
shutdown
access-list ALL line 8 extended permit ip any any
access-list everyone line 8 extended permit ip any any
access-list everyone line 16 extended permit icmp any any
class-map type management match-any remote_access
2 match protocol xml-https any
3 match protocol icmp any
4 match protocol telnet any
5 match protocol ssh any
6 match protocol http any
7 match protocol https any
8 match protocol snmp any
policy-map type management first-match remote_mgmt_allow_policy
class remote_access
    permit
interface vlan 1000
ip address 172.16.16.16 255.255.255.0
access-group input ALL
service-policy input remote_mgmt_allow_policy
no shutdown
ip route 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 172.16.16.254
context test
allocate-interface vlan 11
allocate-interface vlan 13
member rc1
test Context
=========
access-list bpdu-fixup ethertype permit bpdu
access-list ALL line 8 extended permit ip any any
access-list ALL line 16 extended permit icmp any any
rserver host srv1
ip address 172.16.11.1
inservice
rserver host srv2
ip address 172.16.11.2
inservice
serverfarm host srv
rserver srv1
    inservice
rserver srv2
    inservice
sticky ip-netmask 255.255.255.255 address both SG1
timeout 120
serverfarm srv
class-map type management match-any remote-mgmt
201 match protocol snmp any
202 match protocol ssh any
203 match protocol icmp any
204 match protocol http any
205 match protocol https any
206 match protocol xml-https any
class-map match-all slb-vip
2 match virtual-address 172.16.11.10 any
policy-map type management first-match remote-mgmt
class remote-mgmt
    permit
policy-map type loadbalance first-match slb
class class-default
    sticky-serverfarm SG1
policy-map multi-match client-vips
class slb-vip
    loadbalance vip inservice
    loadbalance policy slb
    loadbalance vip icmp-reply
interface vlan 11
bridge-group 1
access-group input bpdu-fixup
access-group input ALL
access-group output ALL
no shutdown
interface vlan 13
bridge-group 1
access-group input bpdu-fixup
access-group input ALL
access-group output ALL
service-policy input remote-mgmt
service-policy input client-vips
no shutdown
interface bvi 1
ip address 172.16.11.9 255.255.255.0
no shutdown
ip route 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 172.16.11.254
Could you pls. suggest where I am doing wrong?
Thanks,
Pawan

" I tried trunk port also but it got disabled"   <----- if your L2 config is not correct, nothing will work.
What is the setup on the switch ? Trunk or access vlan ?
What is the status of the interface ? up ? down ?
Do you see something in your arp table ?
Gilles.

Facing Issue in ACE 4710 ..Secondary ACE showing as FSM_FT_STATE_STANDBY_COLD ...

Hi All ,
I am facing problem with my ACE 4710 in active-standby environment . When I check Show ft group detail on my Active ACE , it shows peer state as
FSM_FT_STATE_STANDBY_COLD for Admin context . Below is the output :
Primary_ACE/Admin#sh ft group detail
FT Group                     : 1
No. of Contexts              : 1
Context Name                 : Admin
Context Id                   : 0
Configured Status            : in-service
Maintenance mode             : MAINT_MODE_OFF
My State                     : FSM_FT_STATE_ACTIVE
My Config Priority           : 120
My Net Priority              : 120
My Preempt                   : Enabled
Peer State                   : FSM_FT_STATE_STANDBY_COLD
Peer Config Priority         : 100
Peer Net Priority            : 100
Peer Preempt                 : Enabled
Peer Id                      : 1
Last State Change time       : Tue Jan 1 05:32:55 2002
Running cfg sync enabled     : Enabled
Running cfg sync status      : Peer in Cold State. Error on Standby device when
applying configuration file replicated from active
Startup cfg sync enabled     : Enabled
Startup cfg sync status      : Peer in Cold State. Startup configuration sync ha
[7m--More--[m
s completed
Bulk sync done for ARP: 0
Bulk sync done for LB: 0
Bulk sync done for ICM: 0
FT Group                     : 2
No. of Contexts              : 1
Context Name                 : APP_Context
Context Id                   : 1
Configured Status            : in-service
Maintenance mode             : MAINT_MODE_OFF
My State                     : FSM_FT_STATE_ACTIVE
My Config Priority           : 120
My Net Priority              : 120
My Preempt                   : Enabled
Peer State                   : FSM_FT_STATE_STANDBY_HOT
Peer Config Priority         : 100
Peer Net Priority            : 100
Peer Preempt                 : Enabled
Peer Id                      : 1
Last State Change time       : Tue Jan 1 05:32:56 2002
Running cfg sync enabled     : Enabled
[7m--More--[m
Running cfg sync status      : Running configuration sync has completed
Startup cfg sync enabled     : Enabled
Startup cfg sync status      : Startup configuration sync has completed
Bulk sync done for ARP: 0
Bulk sync done for LB: 0
Bulk sync done for ICM: 0
Also when I give show ft config-errors on my secondary ACE it gives the following result .
Secondary_ACE/Admin#sh ft config-error
Mon Jun 10 00:04:11 IST 2002
`no 3 match virtual-address 10.40.3.15 tcp eq https`
Error: LB action requires match vip command
`no 3 match virtual-address 10.40.3.15 tcp eq 8082`
Error: LB action requires match vip command
`no 3 match virtual-address 10.40.3.21 tcp eq www`
Error: LB action requires match vip command
`no 3 match virtual-address 10.40.3.21 tcp eq https`
Error: LB action requires match vip command
`2 match virtual-address 10.40.3.21 tcp eq https`
Error: This configuration already exists
`2 match virtual-address 10.40.3.21 tcp eq www`
Error: This configuration already exists
`2 match virtual-address 10.40.3.15 tcp eq 8082`
Error: This configuration already exists
`2 match virtual-address 10.40.3.15 tcp eq https`
Error: This configuration already exists
Error(s) while applying config.
I am attaching the running configuration of both the ACE's . Kindly help me in resolving the issue .
Also I noticed one thing . There is configuration difference in Primary and Secondary ACE . I guess this is causing the issue .
Need help to fix this asap .
Following configuration is missing on the secondary ACE .
======================================================================
class-map match-all WEB_FARM_VIP-80
3 match virtual-address 10.40.3.15 tcp eq www
policy-map type loadbalance first-match WEB_FARM_VIP-80-l7slb
class class-default
    serverfarm HTTP-2-HTTPS
class WEB_FARM_VIP-80
    loadbalance vip inservice
    loadbalance policy WEB_FARM_VIP-80-l7slb
Thanks ,
Tushar

Dear all,
Pls help me out in this regard, I dont have much idea about ACE.
Regards,
Sashi

ACE 4710 HTTP Probes

Using the ACE 4710 for loadbalancing a Sharepoint site.
We currently have a HTTP probe setup to check the port 80 status of the rserver.
Is there anyway to get the HTTP probe to check a DNS entry for each of the application sites? For instance http://info vs http://site are two different web sites running on the same IP. One site could have a problem but the actual port 80 for the IP may be still alive.
Thanks for any information.

Has anyone figure this out? I am tring to get healthchecks/probes setup in this same fashion. I have 2 servers with 1 IP but have many sites. I want to probe each side and ensure I get a 200 code. I also have to provide credentials to the site. It seems that if i open IE I can log in just fine to the site with the credentials. However there is an active x control box that is wanting to be installed. When I set this up on my ACE it seems I am getting a http 401 unauthorized error. I have done a wireshark capture while I was browsing and I see the 401 however it also reports a 200 code after that. Do you think this is a problem because of the active x control wanting to be downloaded? Or is this an issue with the first http code that is recieved by the probe, that being the 401 and then the 200? Below is my config (cleaned of course).
probe http HTTP-80-OUR.DOMAIN.COM
interval 15
passdetect interval 60
credentials
request method get url http://our.domain.com/default.aspx
expect status 200 200
header Host header-value "our.domain.com"
open 1
rserver host SERVER-A
ip address X.X.X.47
inservice
rserver host SERVER-B
ip address X.X.X.48
inservice
serverfarm host FARM-AB
predictor leastconns
probe HTTP-80-OUR.DOMAIN.COM
rserver SERVER-A
    inservice
rserver SERVER-B
    inservice
ACE4710# show probe HTTP-80-OUR.DOMAIN.COM detail
probe       : HTTP-80-OUR.DOMAIN.COM
type        : HTTP
state       : ACTIVE
description :
   port      : 80      address     : 0.0.0.0         addr type : -
   interval : 15      pass intvl : 60              pass count : 3
   fail count: 3       recv timeout: 10
   http method      : GET
   http url         : http://our.domain.com
   conn termination : GRACEFUL
   expect offset    : 0         , open timeout     : 1
   expect regex     : -
   send data        : -
                ------------------ probe results ------------------
   associations ip-address      port porttype probes   failed   passed   health
   ------------ ---------------+-----+--------+--------+--------+--------+------
   serverfarm : OUR.DOMAIN.COM-10.25.4.12-L3-FARM
     real      : SERVER-A[0]
                X.X.X.47      80    DEFAULT 414      406      8        FAILED
   Socket state        : CLOSED
   No. Passed states   : 1         No. Failed states : 2
   No. Probes skipped : 0         Last status code : 401
   No. Out of Sockets : 0         No. Internal error: 0
   Last disconnect err : Received invalid status code
   Last probe time     : Wed Jun 2 17:44:18 2010
   Last fail time      : Wed Jun 2 13:37:04 2010
   Last active time    : Wed Jun 2 13:34:19 2010
     real      : SERVER-B[0]
                X.X.X.48      80    DEFAULT 414      406      8        FAILED
   Socket state        : CLOSED
   No. Passed states   : 1         No. Failed states : 2
   No. Probes skipped : 0         Last status code : 401
   No. Out of Sockets : 0         No. Internal error: 0
   Last disconnect err : Received invalid status code
   Last probe time     : Wed Jun 2 17:44:20 2010
   Last fail time      : Wed Jun 2 13:37:06 2010
   Last active time    : Wed Jun 2 13:34:21 2010

ACE 4710 - Internet Explorer cannot display the webpage randomly

We have a ACE 4710 with a basic config, (see below).
When clicking on a tab from a window within Interent explorer we occasionally get an issue with it returning: "Internet Explorer cannot display the webpage" The details show "Access is denied" accessing a particular line of a javascript file.
We have put one web server out of service in the farm to make sure that this isn't a result of stickyness not quite working.
We have tested extensively by going directly to the web server directly without the load balancer and cannot reproduce the problem but we can produce the issue within a few minutes when going to the load balanced address.
Thanks in advance for any advice.
HOST-1/Admin# show run
Generating configuration....
logging enable
logging fastpath
logging standby
logging timestamp
logging trap 6
logging history 6
resource-class SLB_ResourceClass_T_R
limit-resource all minimum 10.00 maximum unlimited
resource-class sticky
limit-resource all minimum 10.00 maximum unlimited
boot system image:c4710ace-t1k9-mz.A5_1_2.bin
peer hostname HOST-2
hostname HOST-1
interface gigabitEthernet 1/1
switchport access vlan 1000
no shutdown
interface gigabitEthernet 1/2
shutdown
interface gigabitEthernet 1/3
description LB003
switchport access vlan 1
shutdown
interface gigabitEthernet 1/4
description LB004
switchport access vlan 2
shutdown
interface port-channel 1
port-channel load-balance src-dst-port
no shutdown
clock timezone standard GMT
switch-mode
context Admin
description SUTLB01
member SLB_ResourceClass_T_R
access-list ALL line 8 extended permit ip any any
access-list ALL line 16 extended permit icmp any any
access-list everyone line 8 extended permit ip any any
access-list everyone line 16 extended permit icmp any any
probe tcp probe_tcp_80
port 80
rserver host Server_S_W301
description Server_S_W301
ip address x.x.32.152
inservice
rserver host Server_S_W302
description Server_S_W302
ip address x.x.32.154
inservice
serverfarm host sfarm_T_R
description sfarm_T_R
predictor leastconns
probe probe_tcp_80
rserver Server_S_W301 80
rserver Server_S_W302 80
    inservice
sticky http-cookie Cookie1 T_R_sticky_cookie
cookie insert browser-expire
timeout 3600
serverfarm sfarm_T_R
class-map match-any T_R_L4Class
2 match virtual-address x.x.33.150 tcp eq www
class-map type management match-any remote_access
2 match protocol xml-https any
3 match protocol icmp any
4 match protocol telnet any
5 match protocol ssh any
6 match protocol http any
7 match protocol https any
8 match protocol snmp any
policy-map type management first-match remote_mgmt_allow_policy
class remote_access
    permit
policy-map type loadbalance first-match T_R_L7policy
class class-default
    sticky-serverfarm T_R_sticky_cookie
policy-map multi-match T_R_L4Policy
class T_R_L4Class
    loadbalance vip inservice
    loadbalance policy T_R_L7policy
    loadbalance vip icmp-reply active
    nat dynamic 2 vlan 1000
interface vlan 1000
ip address x.x.33.148 255.255.254.0
access-group input ALL
nat-pool 2 x.x.33.151 x.x.33.151 netmask 255.255.254.0 pat
service-policy input remote_mgmt_allow_policy
service-policy input T_R_L4Policy
no shutdown
ip route 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 x.x.32.1
ssh key rsa 1024 force

+------------------------------------------+
+-------------- HTTP statistics -----------+
+------------------------------------------+
LB parse result msgs sent : 421347     , TCP data msgs sent       : 2099597
Inspect parse result msgs : 0          , SSL data msgs sent       : 0
                      sent
TCP fin msgs sent         : 6169       , TCP rst msgs sent:       : 769
Bounced fin msgs sent     : 5          , Bounced rst msgs sent:   : 1
SSL fin msgs sent         : 0          , SSL rst msgs sent:       : 0
Drain msgs sent           : 337811     , Particles read           : 5040829
Reuse msgs sent           : 0          , HTTP requests            : 342499
Reproxied requests        : 183422     , Headers removed          : 37475
Headers inserted          : 342124     , HTTP redirects           : 0
HTTP chunks               : 224859     , Pipelined requests       : 71466
HTTP unproxy conns        : 267246     , Pipeline flushes         : 0
Whitespace appends        : 0          , Second pass parsing      : 0
Response entries recycled : 71302      , Analysis errors          : 0
Header insert errors      : 22         , Max parselen errors      : 215
Static parse errors       : 99         , Resource errors          : 0
Invalid path errors       : 0          , Bad HTTP version errors : 0
Headers rewritten         : 0          , Header rewrite errors    : 0
SSL headers inserted      : 0          , SSL header insert errors : 0
SSL spoof headers deleted : 0         , Unproxy msgs sent         : 267246
HTTP passthrough stat     : 0
NOTE - We did turn on caching at one point to try and resolve the issue but it has since been turned off

Configuring ACE 4710 for Load Balancing Speech servers

Hello, I'm configuring ACE 4710's for the first time and I want to load balance my Nuance speech servers on port 554. Here's my configuration on ACE01:
hostname ace471001
interface gigabitEthernet 1/1
switchport access vlan 1000
no shutdown
interface gigabitEthernet 1/2
shutdown
interface gigabitEthernet 1/3
shutdown
interface gigabitEthernet 1/4
shutdown
access-list ALL line 8 extended permit ip any any
rserver host nss01
class-map type management match-any remote_access
2 match protocol xml-https any
3 match protocol icmp any
4 match protocol telnet any
5 match protocol ssh any
6 match protocol http any
7 match protocol https any
8 match protocol snmp any
policy-map type management first-match remote_mgmt_allow_policy
class remote_access
permit
interface vlan 1000
ip address 10.20.17.21 255.255.248.0
access-group input ALL
service-policy input remote_mgmt_allow_policy
no shutdown
How would I configure my speech server to isten on 554?
Thanks in advance

Hello Reginald
Currently you have only basic network configuration, there is no loadbalancing config
I'm not sure what exactly you're asking about , but basically you need to have
- real servers configured on ACE (
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/app_ntwk_services/data_center_app_services/ace_appliances/vA3_1_0/configuration/slb/guide/rsfarms.html#wp999495)
- serverfarm configured on ACE (
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/app_ntwk_services/data_center_app_services/ace_appliances/vA3_1_0/configuration/slb/guide/rsfarms.html#wp1014522)
- L7 policy map (
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/app_ntwk_services/data_center_app_services/ace_appliances/vA3_1_0/configuration/slb/guide/classlb.html#wp1171109 ,
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/app_ntwk_services/data_center_app_services/ace_appliances/vA3_1_0/configuration/slb/guide/classlb.html#wp1027248 )
- L4 policy map , class-map (
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/app_ntwk_services/data_center_app_services/ace_appliances/vA3_1_0/configuration/slb/guide/classlb.html#wp1027819)
And then apply it on necessary interface.
This is a general configuration, in your specific case you may need to configure some additinal features (e.g. I think you will need to have stickiness enabled
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/app_ntwk_services/data_center_app_services/ace_appliances/vA3_1_0/configuration/slb/guide/sticky.html but it depends on your application)
links are for old config guids , but basic is pretty much the same for all versions.
Please check them and try to narrow down your question a bit.

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