Enabling or disabling traffic forwarding to your servers
The server pool configuration allows you to individually enable and disable FortiWeb’s forwarding of HTTP/HTTPS traffic to your web servers, or place them in maintenance mode.
You can select server pools with disabled virtual servers in a server policy even though the policy cannot forward traffic to the disabled servers.
Disabled physical and domain servers can belong to a server pool, but FortiWeb does not forward traffic to them.
By default, physical and domain servers that belong to a pool are enabled and the FortiWeb appliance can forward traffic to them. To prevent traffic from being forwarded to a physical server, such as when the server is unavailable for a long time due to repairs, you can disable it. If the disabled physical server is a member of a Server Balance server pool, the FortiWeb appliance automatically forwards connections to other enabled pool members.
| If the physical or domain server is a member of a Server Balance server pool and will be unavailable only temporarily, you can alternatively configure a server health check to automatically prevent the FortiWeb appliance from forwarding traffic to that physical server when it is unresponsive. For details, see “Configuring server up/down checks”. |
| Disabling a physical or domain server could block traffic matching policies in which you have selected the server pool of which the physical server is a member. |
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