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This is your one stop resource for Version 8.6 Equalizer documentation. (For Version 8.5 documentation, click here.)
In our documentation, our goal is to provide you with a complete description of the capabilities of Equalizer, and how to configure them to fit your needs. We continually upgrade and improve our existing content, as well as look for areas where our customer's needs require additional documentation.
In the event that your question is not answered in our documentation, Coyote Point provides several Technical Support options, including a Support Portal and User Forum where you can ask questions and exchange solutions with other customers and Coyote Point engineers. Please go to http://www.coyotepoint.com/support.php for more information. You'll need the System ID of your Equalizer in order to register for Support Portal access; you'll find the System ID on the Welcome screen displayed when you log into the Administrative Interface or by selecting Help > About.
Also note that the Installation and Administration Guide, Release Notes, and Transition Guide are available under the Help menu of the Administration Interface. Click Help > Context Help to display the section of the manual appropriate for the currently displayed interface screen.
The documents below are in PDF format. Most browsers are PDF-enabled, and these documents should open in your browser when you click on the links in the left column. You can also download the latest Adobe PDF viewer here.
| Release Documents | ||
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| Release Notes | New features, problems fixed, and known issues for the latest version of Equalizer software. | |
| Upgrade Instructions | How to upgrade Equalizer to the latest release from Coyote Point's FTP site. | |
| Manual Upgrade (User FTP) | How to upgrade an Equalizer that cannot reach the Coyote Point Upgrade Server via the Internet. | |
| Transition Guide | For those familiar with the Equalizer Version 7 interface, a guide to the changes in the Administration Interface between Version 7 and Version 8. | |
| Commonly Requested Documentation | ||
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Installation and Administration Guide |
The complete Equalizer reference. Links to commonly requested documentation from the guide appear below, along with links to standalone documents that discuss special topics. | |
| Admin Interface Overview | How to use and navigate through the web based Administrative Interface. | |
| An Equalizer Overview | Equalizer's load balancing and application acceleration capabilities explained. | |
| Command Line Interface | How to use the Equalizer command line interface for troubleshooting and manual configuration. | |
| Direct Server Return (DSR) | How to configure DSR: a special single network configuration where incoming requests are routed through Equalizer, but server responses are sent directly back to the client, by-passing Equalizer. | |
| Email Explained | Explains the email notification messages sent by Equalizer for specific events. | |
| Load Balancing Policy | Explains Equalizer's various load balancing policy settings and how they distribute incoming requests to the servers in a cluster. | |
| Envoy | How to use Equalizer's Geographic Server Load Balancing to provide non-stop availability between geographically distant data centers. | |
| Failover | How to use two Equalizers in an active/passive configuration to provide non-stop application availability within a data center. | |
| Monitoring | This chapter explains all the statistics, plotting, and other status information available through the graphical web interface. | |
| Packet Captures | How to take packet captures to analyze the traffic passing through Equalizer. | |
| Persistence | An explanation of Equalizer's persistence settings and how they interact. | |
| Remote Access | How to enable remote access to Equalizer's console via a Secure Shell (SSH). | |
| Responders | How to use Responders and Match Rules to configure an automatic Redirect or "Sorry" server for a cluster. | |
| Routing | Explains static routing through the use of example configurations that require special routes to provide client and server connectivity in a load balanced environment. | |
| Server Agents | How to write, configure, and deploy a server agent that returns status information to Equalizer. The return value of the agent can be used by Equalizer when making load balancing decisions. | |
| Single Network Examples | A discussion and example of how to set up Equalizer in single network mode (all connections to Equalizer are on the same subnet). | |
| Smart Events | How automate configuration updates based on changes in monitored parameters. | |
| SSL Certificates | How to upload and manage SSL Certificates for HTTPS clusters. | |
| Support Archive | Creating a system information archive to send to Coyote Point Support for analysis. | |
| Timeouts | Equalizer uses a number of timeout variables to control how long it waits for connections to be established and how long inactive connections remain open. A separate set of timeouts affects Equalizer's server health check mechanism. For example: how long it waits for health check probe responses and the time between probes. | |
| User Logins | Creating and managing user logins. Two default logins are provided: one is unrestricted and one is view only. Additional logins can be created, with custom permissions on specific objects. | |
| Virtualization Load Balancing (VLB) | How to use Equalizer with a VMware configuration to provide more detailed server status information, as well as manage virtual machines. | |