It this example we have two servers running on two different computers. The first has the IP 192.168.0.2 and listens on port 5000 and the second has the IP 192.168.0.3 and listens on port 5000 as well. What we want is to make sure that our web site always is online. By creating a Server cluster we can define any number of web servers that can handle our site. If one of them goes down the others will keep answering.
Look at these settings:
Name
The name of the cluster is just a name for you to make it easier to remember.
Server name
The Server name field is only used to name the server so that you can easily remember it.
Capacity
This tells OctaGate Switch™ how to balance the traffic. 50/50 means that Server1 gets half and the requests and Server2 gets the remaining half. The number is not a percentage but the total sum of all the numbers on all server makes out 100%. For example: if Server1 has a number of 125 and Server2 has a number of 280 and Server3 has a number of 200 then the total would be 605 and Server1 will get 125/605=20,7% of the requests and Server2 will get 280/605=46,3% and Server3 will get 200/605=33,0% of the requests.
On/Off
By turning the server On/Off you can take it out of the cluster at runtime. It will not get any new requests.
Online
This indicator shows if the server is online. This is tested periodically and is part of the fail over functionality.