MSM7xx Controllers Configuration Guide v6.4.0

DescriptionParameter
</MYCOMPANY:WebServerStatus>
</SOAP-ENV:Body>
</SOAP-ENV:Envelope>
Change the
<MYCOMPANY:result>
line to indicate the status of the server as follows:
Server is UP
<MYCOMPANY:result>UP</MYCOMPANY:result>
Server is DOWN
<MYCOMPANY:result>DOWN</MYCOMPANY:result>
Do not change any other lines in the file.
Polling
The controller attempts to retrieve the server status file from the primary server first. If no response
is received before the polling timeout expires (30 seconds by default), the controller attempts
to retrieve the server status file from the secondary server. If no response is received before the
polling timeout expires, unauthenticated users attempting to login will see the Fail page with
the message: "Login server is unavailable".
After initialization, the controller continuously polls the servers to determine their status. As long
as the primary server is available, it is used. if the primary server fails to respond or returns
status DOWN, then the secondary server will be used, but only until the primary server comes
back up.
The polling interval and polling timeout are configured by editing the following entries in the
configuration file: web-server-polling-interval and web-server-polling-timeout.
To change the error message, edit the entry err-msg-login-server-down in messages.txt.
Setting the URLs of other AV-Pair values
This feature will redefine the URLs in the following AV-Pair values, if they have the same hostname
as is specified for the primary-web-server-status-url:
• login-url
• welcome-url
• goodbye-url
• logout-url
• login-err-url
• ipass-login-url
For example, if the following values are defined:
primary-web-server-status-url=https://srv1.abc.com/status.html
secondary-web-server-status-url=https://srv2.abc.com/status.html
login-url=https://srv1.abc.com/loginpage.html
welcome-url=http://srv1.abc.com/mywelcome.html
login-err-url=http://srv3.xyx.com/mywelcome.html
• If the primary server is up, then the URLs are not changed.
• If the primary server is down and the secondary server is up, then login-url and welcome-url
are changed as follows:
478 Working with RADIUS attributes