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December 5, 2022

Technical Tip: How to configure session persistence to Server Balance server pools

  • December 5, 2022
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Description This article describes how to configure session persistence to Server Balance server pools.
Scope FortiWeb.
Solution

Prerequisite:

- FortiWeb operates on Reverse Proxy mode.

- The server pool is to be configured with Server Balance mode.

 

1) Goto Persistence Policy under Server Objects.

 

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2) Create the Persistence policy by selecting the session type.

 

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3) Example using the Cookie type, where the session persistence will be relying on the cookie header injected from the web application at the real servers.

 

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4) After creating the Persistence Policy, next will be assigning the Persistence Policy to the Server Pool with Server Balance mode.

 

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5) The traffic load balanced from FortiWeb should have session persistence to each of the nodes according to the created policy.

 

Related document:

https://docs.fortinet.com/document/fortiweb/7.0.4/administration-guide/399384/defining-your-web-servers

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