HAProxy ALOHA Documentation 11.5

L7 Farm

A farm is a container for real servers. The contained servers must have the same role and deliver the same service.

Farm attributes and options define the session behavior on the server side of the load balancer, such as how to check, dispatch connections, connect, forward data, and maintain sessions to real servers.

Farms are identified by a name; allowed characters include alpha-numeric, dot, dash, and underscore.

The available farm attributes are listed below:

balance

  • Definition: load balancing algorithm used to dispatch new connections on real servers

  • Type: enum

  • Default value: roundrobin

Value

Description

roundrobin

Each server is used in turn according to their weights.

least-connections

The new connection is affected to the server with the lowest number of connections.

hash-uri

The left part of the URI (before the question mark) is hashed and divided by the total weight of the running servers. The result designates which server will receive the request.

hash-source

The source IP address is hashed and divided by the total weight of the running servers to designate which server will receive the request. This ensures that the same client IP address will always reach the same server as long as no server goes down or up.

protocol

  • Definition: protocol analyzer used by load balancer. Some features of HTTP protocol require to have the analyzer on.

  • Type: enum

  • Default value: tcp

Value

Description

tcp

Layer4 protocol TCP analyzer

http

Layer7 protocol HTTP analyzer

log

  • Definition: log farm events

  • Type: enum

  • Default value: logs are disabled

Value

Description

enabled

Logs are enabled

log format

This attribute is ignored if log is not set to enabled.

  • Definition: log format used if logs are enabled

  • Type: enum

  • Default value: basic log format

Value

Description

tcp

Advanced tcp log format

http

Advanced http log format (fall back to tcp mode if protocol not set to http)

clf

Use common log format defined by apache (fall back to tcp mode if protocol not set to http)

http-connection-mode

This attribute is ignored if protocol is not set to http.

  • Definition: http keepalive behavior

  • Type: enum

  • Default value: tunnel

Value

Description

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

This attribute is ignored if protocol is not set to http.

  • Definition: HTTP keepalive announced to the server regardless keepalive status

  • Type: enum

  • Default value: disabled

Value

Description

enabled

keepalive announces are enabled

disabled

keepalive announces are disabled

http-xff-header-insert

This attribute is ignored if protocol is not set to http.

  • Definition: Inserts an HTTP header field X-Forwarded-For whose value is the client IPaddress

  • Type: enum

  • Default value: disabled

Value

Description

enabled

X-Forwarded-For HTTP header field insertion is enabled

check-interval

  • Definition: Interval in seconds between two consecutive server health checks.

  • Type: integer

  • Default value: 2

heck-rise

  • Definition: Count of consecutive successful health checks to consider server operational.

  • Type: integer

  • Default value: 2

check-fall

  • Definition: Count of consecutive unsuccessful health checks to consider server not operational.

  • Type: integer

  • Default value: 3

check-port

  • Definition: Destination TCP port used to perform health check. Set to 0 to use server port.

  • Type: integer

  • Default value: server port is used

check-timeout

  • Definition: additional health check timeout in seconds occurring when waiting for server's response (after the connection is established). Set to 0 for set timeout to check-interval.

  • Type: integer

  • Default value: check timeout is set to check-interval

adv-check

  • Definition: Advanced check method

  • Type: enum

  • Default value: No advanced check. Performs a TCP connect.

Value

Description

http

Use an HTTP request health check for server testing. If HTTP status code 2xx or 3xx is returned, the check is successful (requires adv-check-http-method and adv-check-http-uri configured).

ldap

LDAPv3 anonymous simple bind health check for server testing

mysql

MySQL health checks

pgsql

PostgreSQL health check using a StartupMessage

smtp

send a SMTP HELO command and analyze server's response

ssl-client-hello

Use SSLv3 client 'hello' health checks for server testing. If an SSLv3 server hello is returned, check is successful

tcp

Send/expect sequence of raw TCP

adv-check-http-uri

This attribute can be set and it is mandatory if adv-check is set to http.

  • Definition: Requested URI for http health check

  • Type: string

  • Default value: Advanced check not set to http

adv-check-http-method

This attribute can be set and it is mandatory if adv-check is set to http.

  • Definition: HTTP request method used during http health check. If not set, HEAD is used.

  • Type: string

  • Default value: advanced check not set to http

adv-check-http-version

This attribute can be set and it is mandatory if adv-check is set to http.

  • Definition: HTTP request protocol version. If not set, HTTP/1.0 is used. Can be used to send a Host header field.

  • Type: string

  • Default value: advanced check not set to http

ueued-timeout

This attribute can be set and it is mandatory if adv-check is set to http.

  • Definition: Maximum time to wait in the queue for a server's connection slot to be available

  • Type: integer

  • Default value: no timeout

  • Particular value: 0 means no timeout

connect-timeout

  • Definition: Maximum time to wait for a server connection attempt to succeed.

  • Type: integer

  • Default value: no timeout

  • Particular value: 0 means no timeout

connect-retries

  • Definition: Number of retries to perform when trying to establish a connection to a server

  • Type: integer

  • Default value: no retries

  • Values: 0 means no retry

connect-failure-redispatch

Only used when connect-retries is greater than 1

  • Definition: Session redispatch to another server in case of connection failure. Last connect-retries will be performed on another server.

  • Type: enum

  • Default value: no redispatch

Value

Description

enabled

session redispatch is enabled

disabled

session redispatch is disabled

connect-source

  • Definition: Force source address to use when connecting to servers.

  • Type: ip

  • Default value: Use the first address on load balancer's outgoing interface

  • Particular value: Set to 0.0.0.0 to use first address available on load balancer's outbound interface

connect-transparent

This attribute can be set and it is mandatory if connect-source is set.

  • Definition: Transparent proxy mode; the client source address is reused as the source address to connect to server.

  • Type: enum

  • Default value: Use the first address on load balancer's outgoing interface

Value

Description

enabled

transparent proxy is enabled

disabled

transparent proxy is disabled

continuous-statistics

  • Definition: Continuous traffic statistics updates

  • Type: enum

  • Default value: disabled, meaning traffic counters are incremented once a session finishes.

Value

Description

enabled

enable continuous traffic statistics monitoring

server-inactivity-timeout

  • Definition:

  • Type: integer

  • Default value: no timeout

  • Particular value: 0 for no timeout

stick-table

  • Definition: Create a stick table in the farm; expect type of data to be stored as an argument

  • Type: enum

  • Default value: none

Value

Description

binary

blocks of at most stick-table-keylen bytes of data

integer

32 bits integer

ip

IPv4 addresses

ipv6

IPv6 addresses

string

regular string, of at most stick-table-keylen characters

stick-table-expire

  • Definition: Maximum life time of data in a stick-table if unrefreshed

  • Type: integer

  • Default value: 32 charaters or bytes

stick-table-keylen

  • Definition: Maximum size of data when storing binary or string in the table

  • Type: integer

  • Default value: 32 charaters or bytes

stick-table-nopurge

  • Definition: Maximum life time of data in a stick-table if unrefreshed

  • Type: enum

  • Default value: 32 charaters or bytes

stick-table-peers

  • Definition: HAProxy's peers section name (must be already configured). Used to synchronize data after a reload and between two HAProxy ALOHA load-balancers.

  • Type: string

  • Default value: none

stick-table-size

  • Definition: The maximum number of entries that can be stored in the table.

  • Type: integer

  • Default value: none

tcpreq-inspect-delay

  • Definition: Set the maximum allowed time to wait for data from the client during content inspection.

  • Type: integer

  • Default value: 0

tcprsp-inspect-delay

  • Definition: Set the maximum allowed time to wait for data from the server during content inspection.

  • Type: integer

  • Default value: 0


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