Cisco ACE 4710 - Health Monitoring for Real Servers

Question

Hi,
I have setup the following health probe to check for the existence of a specific web page.  My intention is that when the web page is removed, the health check fails and the rserver status changes to 'out of service'.  Unfortunately, when I remove the web page, I see the health check fail, and the rserver state change to 'PROBE-FAILED', however the rserver does not go 'out of service' and continues to respond to requests.
Can anyone see where I'am going wrong?
Health check probe config
probe http live_http_int
  interval 15
  passdetect interval 60
  request method get url /loadbalancer/internal.html
  expect status 199 201
  open 10
RSERVER config
rserver host Server1
  description Server1
  ip address 10.10.10.1
  conn-limit max 4000000 min 4000000
  probe live_http_int
  inservice
rserver host Server2
  ip address 10.10.10.2
  conn-limit max 4000000 min 4000000
  probe live_http_int
  inservice

Answer 1

Hi syannetwork,
I think you have to "force" the failed server to close the connection when it has failed. Otherwise it will still serve the available HTML pages.
Have a look at the "Configuring the ACE Action when a Server Fails" in the "Cisco Application Control Engine Module Server Load-Balancing Configuration Guide" and let me know if the following command helped:
conf t
serverfarm host ServerFarm
failaction purge
Have a good WE.
Cheers
LPL