Cisco Application :: ACE 4710 Cannot Confirm HTTP Cookie Sticky Connections
Jan 8, 2013
We are using a ACE 4710 with A3(2.6) software release.I had to change our sticky load balancing method for HTTPS to cookie based.However while connections appear to work if I look at the show sticky database table I can not see or confirm sticky entries for the cookie based connections.Here or config snippets to show the config
sticky http-cookie ghh-www scook-ghh
cookie insert browser-expire
serverfarm ghh-www-443
class-map match-all ghh-www-443_CLASS
2 match virtual-address 172.16.1.21 tcp eq https
[code].....
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Feb 1, 2012
I have a requirement to load balance OWA 2010 inbound connectivity to 2 CAS servers using a ACE 4710 with sticky sessions enabled.
The CAS servers are currently responding on 80 or 443 at this moment in time. Eventually I want to off load the SSL to the ACE 4710, its currently running on the CAS servers. I need to enable sticky sessions to keep the session to the same CAS server for each internet based connection. I also have a proxy enabled for inbound connectivity so I cannot use source IP.
Here is my configuration but it doesn’t seem to be working, i am currently testing with port 80 connections not SSL.
serverfarm host INHOUSE-EXCHANGE-OWA-vFARM
predictor response app-req-to-resp samples 4
probe 443
probe HTTP-PROBE
rserver INHOUSE-TEST-CAS01-SVR
inservice(code)
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Nov 2, 2011
We are using a sticky serverfarm with 2 real servers, one server was down for maintenance for an extended period of time. When it came inservice again it was not getting any connections. is it because all the connections had stuck to the other server ? we want sessions to be sticky but we also want to LB?I got it working by bouncing the server that had been online all the time. things started to LB then.BTW the ACE 4710 is running 4.2.1
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Sep 10, 2012
We've got ACE30s (active/standby) running A5(1.2), and a context that's front-ending one of our major applications, doing SSL termination on the client side and SSL initiation on the back side:
parameter-map type ssl FrontEndSSL-Param
rehandshake enabled
parameter-map type ssl BackendSSL-param
authentication-failure ignore
[Code]...
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Jul 23, 2012
We have ACE 4710, It is configured with IP based stickiness and working fine for a web application server (BMC Remedy). We tried configuring cookie based stickiness for the same server. Server application is having JSESSIONID.But after configuring cookie based stickiness, there is an issue that the first page is coming for entering login credentials and after entering it the page is blank or not responding. What is the pre-requirement for configuring cookie based stickiness in ACE for BMC Remedy web application and which type of cookie based stickiness is suitable or possible?
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Apr 7, 2013
I am considering using IP sticky timeout, but have a quick question about the database, is the 800,000 sticky connection per appliance or per context?
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Dec 15, 2011
I've been using my pair of ACE-4710s for quite some time and have usually stuck to the Class C Subnet sticky settings, as that's what we migrated from in Windows NLB. In one instance of load balancing I'm trying to create an L4 inspection policy that looks for a certain payload (much like a http header) and would like to persist on this. The problem is that the client portion of the conversation starts with a 'SessionID' of 0, and the server responds with a unique 'SessionID'. If I setup the sticky policy with 'Enable Sticky For Response', I get entries populated in the sticky database, but they all go to the same server as there is a sticky session setup for the SessionID = 0. Is there a way to setup sticky entries on server response only.Currently using ACE DM v4(1.0).
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Sep 24, 2012
I'm looking for some documentation I can share with a customer to explain why I can't configure them a back-up sticky server farm when we're not terminating SSL on the the ACE (we pass SSL from the client through to the rservers, sticking the client to the rserver by source IP address). I've not been able to find anything that addresses this particular scenario in my googling so far. I remember discussing this in my training class with the instructor, but I can't find any reference to it. Have any of you run into this and have a link they can share?
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Jan 24, 2013
I have a strange effect at my ACE 4710. I loadbalances normally reliable only 14 WEB-Services.
It's running on SW A3.25. Since several weeks I regognized a dramatical increase of Sticky entries. So when running in limitations (the stolen for reuse counter increased then) (show np 1 me-stats "-slb -v") gave more and more resources for sticky ... last it was at 65% and ran again into limits at round 650500 Sticky entries.
So I began to find out what of the services was affected with most sticky database entries and could Identify it. There were really to see round about640000 entries for that specific service.
The sticky for that service was defined to look at a specific cookie in the http header and the timeout defined is 120 minutes.
So round about 45000 Entries was to see with a "show sticky databse group Cookie_Sticky" with a time-to-expire value of zero in the database like the follwing examüple shows:
timeout : 120 timeout-activeconns : FALSE sticky-entry rserver-instance time-to-expire flags ---------------------+--------------------------------+--------------+-------+ 13765297814690832647
[Code]....
When I modified my Sticky definition with the command "timeout activeconns" all the Zero-Entries were kicked out and the rsources used for Stickywent back to 5% of usage...
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Mar 28, 2012
I was trying to implement stickiness based on cookie. Server inserts a cookie and sends it to the browser. I learned from app team that this cookie is changing dynamically during the session, so stickiness based on server’s cookie doesn’t work.
Now I want to investigate into possibility of ACE to insert a cookie. My question is: ACE feature of “cookie insert”: does it add additional cookie into http header without removing server cookies or it deletes the cookie(s) that server put into http header and replaces them with its own cookie?
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Jan 9, 2013
I have an ACE version A5.2 configured in one-armed leg (doing source nat). I have a requirement to add(or copy) the "referer" header value from the original request to the request send by ACE.
I cannot figure out how to copy this value. It is easy to add the source ip address by adding: " insert-http x-forwarded-for header-value "%is".
So how I am going to copy the Refere header?
#Referer
#Address (URI) of the resource from which the URI in the request was obtained
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Feb 27, 2012
For a CSS with a SSL module (performing SSL termination) - is it possible to impliment a redirect on https URL to send to equivalent http URL.If my understanding is correct, the CSS will do SSL termination and then use an http content rule on the resultant http stream as it is recursively handled by the CSS ? This would mean that the SSL module has no way of seeing/acting on layer 5 and above data (i.e. picking up on a specific URL) and can not itself issue a redirect - i.e. you could not associate a redirect statement or service with the following ssl content rule ? [code]The CSS would instead rely on a http content rule to impliment a redirect - i.e. you would have to associate a redirect statement or service to the following http content rule instead?
But if the CSS is already handling traffic for existing url... traffic that is going to cause a loop when a client goes direct to. url...I realise the requirment is uncommon / a bit convoluted, its one of those don't ask type scenarios - aimed at achieving a specific requirement.Would the ACE 4710 be able to handle such a scenario any differently ?
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Jun 21, 2012
I am trying to make a redirect from http to https. the goal is whenever a user writes in http://10.80.199.71 it should be redirected to https://10.80.199.71 I am just haveing some trouble making it work.
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Oct 10, 2012
We had a PCI security audit of an existing VIP on our ACE 4710. The VIP is set up as HTTPS terminating on the ACE with a http redirect for all 80 traffic. The audit reported this VIP was vunerabled to the Cisco "IOS HTTP Authorization Vulnerability". Which basicly states, http Management is on this IOS device. It does not make any sense, as the VIP is pointed to a pair IIS servers?
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Nov 9, 2011
We are migrating from ACE 20 module to an ACE 4710 appliance. [code] When pasting in the config on the ACE 4710 running A4(2.1) code, I get the subject error message when trying to enter in the highlighted sticky-serverfarm command above. Again, this config works on the older hardware and older code.
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Jul 12, 2011
Can the ACE appliance behave as a reverse proxy for http and ssl traffic? I would assume it can given how it does SLB but SLB is not a requirement at this time.
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Sep 25, 2011
i have a 4710 appliance (one armed) and i am load balancing with two webservers. In the URL, there are links that need to be redirected to https:
[URL]
i am using the
rserver redirect REDIRECT-TO-HTTPS[URL]
The https is working but i have a problem. when i access the Main link "first" it is redirected to https to the Main link.But if i access one of the Sublinks directly(without having to click on the main link first) the page is redirected to https but to the Main Link. i have to click the Sublink again in order to get the page.How can i redirect to https and stay on the same page? What might be the general link in the webserver-redirection?
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Sep 18, 2011
We want to mask part of the path prefix to hide development content: For example: the site(s) are: [URL]However we don't want anything with acme showing...so we would want the loadbalanced url to be: [URL] ...for requests and responses. I think this would be an http re-write request/response scenario?Is this possible to configure this on the ACE Device? We've got the load balance configuration down...not sure how to do this re-write type scenario?
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Oct 21, 2012
After replacing a Cisco CSS/SSL Accelorator and PIX firewall with an ACE 4710 to do load balancing and SSL encryption behind an ASA firewall we started seeing mangled HTTP requests in the Apache access logs for the servers in the server farm. This is occurring for several different URLs and not just the one above and for multiple web browsers.The ACE load balances to servers running Tomcat 7 with Apache HTTP server v. 2.2.14. A recent ACE software upgrade to A5(2.1) has not fixed the problem.
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Jul 31, 2011
We have recently transitioned one of our Ecommerce products to a new data center, at which we now use a one-armed load balancing approach rather then the routed load balancing approach we used previously. This is casuing us some issues as we generally log the source IP address a user comes in on when he fills out an application. Now the logs only show the natted ip address recieved by the load balancer, which does us no good. Any way to log the source IP address when a new connection is created to a particular vip?
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Oct 23, 2011
Is this normal to have millions of current connections within an ace 4710? There is only 3 current connections but shows a high number?
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Jan 23, 2013
I have four ACE 4710. Each pair of ACE is in one geographical location. Probes are configured so that it is checking regular regex (HTTP GET).When there is need rserver update we change text in our testpage.html (for ie. from "OK" to "SUSPEND" ) so that probe detect fail. In fact rservers are still operational, but should not accept new connections. This works fine. BUT I observed that established connection/sessions did not end up after probe fails. ACE probably wait for openned/established connections to end up and it is what I am askign for.What happens if probe fails but in fact rserver is operational? I thought that if probe fails it also end up/cut all established connections to rserver. But seems it is not true.
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Sep 13, 2012
I must redirect all connections from port 443 to 9443.
this is configered and running:
serverfarm host FARM-002
probe test-xml
rserver svx-xmlfw-lb-01 9443
backup-rserver svx-xmlfw-lb-02 9443
inservice
rserver svx-xmlfw-lb-02 9443
[code]....
I have in the moment following problem. All connections become redirectet to port 9443 but port 8080 shouldn`t be redirectet to port 9443. What can i change in my config to solve this problem?
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Sep 28, 2011
I have a problem in the ACE 4710. In view of the connections of a web environment. When I view connections on Config> Operations> Real Servers, Conns column values appear very high connections (Example. 1606317769078).Already in Config> Operations> Virtual Server the number of connections appear normal. Version 4710 ACE Device manger A4 (2.1a)
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Nov 13, 2012
We are using an ACE engine module(ACE20-MOD-K9) provide loading balancing service for two WEB servers and configured cookie for stickness. Below is the current configuration and it seems working fine now.
The problem I was facing is before use parameter-map change the http header length to 8k the stickness doesn't really working properly. User complains that their working session constantly be kicked out and redirect them to login page. By tracing traffic from a client we found that sometime ACE fails or stop insert the configured cookie, after increase the header length ACE start getting work.
how does the header length setup effect ACE to insert a cookie? Will the cookie insert attmpt fail if the header is longer then the maximum length configured on ACE? [code]
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Sep 5, 2012
I have an ACE20-MOD-K9 with version A2_3_6a, and i am having problems in cookie persistency. the setup contains 4 servers using round-robin algorithm and cookie persistency and that receive http traffic on port 9090. I have been receiving complains that the users are getting disconnected randomly while accessing the web application through ACE. Below is part of the config, when setting the timeout of the cookie to default or something equal to hours, the disconnection/complains gets worse.
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Jun 28, 2012
I have two CSS 11503 in my network, recently we had configured sticky with advanced-balance arrowpoint-cookie.
The sticky is functioning but we found our server's private IP in the IE cookie ARPT box.
Is there any way to hide ARPT info? Below is an example configuration of my CSS and attached screenshot is Firefox cookie info.
content 5301
add service 172.18.71.77_5301
add service 172.18.71.77_5302
[Code]......
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Jul 26, 2011
how a static entry under a "sticky" performs Configuring Static IP Address Sticky Table Entries Cisco Documentation Says When you configure a static entry, the ACE enters it into the sticky table immediately. Configuring the ACE Action on Server Failure failaction purge # The purge keyword specifies that the ACE remove the connections to a real server if that real server in the server farm fails after you enter the command. The ACE sends a reset (RST) to both the client and the server that failed. Cisco Documentation Says If you do not configure this command, the ACE takes no action when a server fails
sample config
sticky ip-netmask 255.255.255.240 address source STICKY1
timeout 180 replicate sticky serverfarm SERVERFARM1 8 static client source 192.168.12.15 rserver SERVER1
Question1 - What happens if SERVER1 fails?
a) Does the ACE let the connections to SERVER1 timeout(default behaviour) and then load-balance new connections coming in deom 192.168.12.15 to another server in SERVERFARM1
ORb) Does the ACE reset the connections to SERVER1 immediately and starts load-balancing new conenction coming in from 192.168.12.15 to other servers in SERVERFARM1 ?
ORc) Does the ACE just drop the current and new connections from 192.168.12.15 till SERVER1 comes back up ?
OR d) Is it dealt differently?
Question2 - Now what happens if the failed server(SERVER1) comes back up after some time?
e) Does the ACE reset any current connections from 192.168.1.15 and starts sending them to SERVER1 ?
ORf) Does the ACE leave the current connections from 192.168.1.15 to other servers in SERVERFARM1 as they are and send any new connections
from 192.168.1.15 to SERVER1?
ORg) Is it dealt differently?
My guess is Question1 -> a) and Question2 -> e)
ACE model = ACE10-6500-K9
Version = A2(3.3)
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Mar 27, 2013
Report run via Individual Web server URL’sThe report takes less than 20 minutes (average 15 minutes) to fetch and return the data. This is observed 9 out of 10 times.Report run via ACE Load Balanced URLThe report keeps on running for more than 20 minutes and never completes. The front end keeps showing report is running.The data in general when tested directly by running queries against the database (bypassing the platform) completes in 15-18 minutesThe network connectivity for each and every ports involved (Loadbalancer/Servers) have been throulgly checked.
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Jul 19, 2011
I have a number of web sites that are currently being load balanced by CSS 11503s runninng 8x code. I was recently requested to configure HTTP --> HTTPS redirects on the CSS for every site. In the past, I have only configured the redirects for sites that had a requirement. Now it appears that the server teams want all content encrypted.
1) What impact will this have on the CPU?
2) What impact will this have on Memory utilization?
3) Is there a maximum nubmer on redirects?
4) Are there other things I should be concerned about?
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Sep 11, 2012
I'm seeing the following error on one of our real server. Is there a way to find out who is spamming?
10.x.x.x(VIP) - - "POST /slmruntime/service HTTP/1.0" 404 1214
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Feb 2, 2013
i'm looking for a recommendation for a setup guide including ft i've had a quick look a wiki and i can get basics but i'm not sure about if i need to setup additional contexts etc when i'm the only one using the appliance?
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Aug 26, 2012
I have an issue with a customer that wants to update a server behind the ACE. The problem is that when the application wants to update the server it does it with the name.Doing some research I found that you can rewrite the record DNS based on the static NAT you set up on the ACE. The feature is called DNS inspection. Is the same feature as the ASA (DNS doctoring).I apply it to the outside interface and it did not work.
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