Load balancing for explicit web proxy forwarding server groups

Chapter 1 What’s New for FortiOS 5.0 : New features in FortiOS 5.0 Patch 4 : Load balancing for explicit web proxy forwarding server groups

Explicit web proxy traffic can now be load balanced among multiple forwarding servers in a forwarding server group.

To configure load balancing, add multiple forwarding servers to a forwarding server group and turn on load balancing for the server group. Then add the forwarding server group to a security policy.

The following example adds three forwarding servers to a forwarding server group. Start by creating the forwarding servers:

config web-proxy forward-server

edit fwd-srv-1

set ip 10.10.10.10

set port 8080

edit fwd-srv-2

set ip 10.10.10.20

set port 8080

edit fwd-srv-3

set ip 10.10.10.30

set port 8080

end

Then add the forwarding servers to a group:

config web-proxy forward-server-group

edit fwd-srv-grp

set affinity enable

set ldb-method weighted

set group-down-option block

config server-list

edit fwd-srv-1

set weight 10

edit fwd-srv-2

set weight 10

edit fwd-srv-3

set weight 10

end

Then add the forwarding server group to a web-proxy security policy:

config firewall policy

edit 0

set srcintf web-proxy

...

set webproxy-forward-server fwd-srv-grp

...

end