Application-protected web resources

Protected web resources are available in Access Gateway version 2022.1.1 and later to support Access Gateway load balancing.

The Protected Web Resource page includes information on load balancing or back end protected web resources, load balancing health checks, host headers, and so on. It includes the following:

Field Description

Default

Load Balancing by Access Gateway Enables or disables load balancing.

When enabled, URL scheme, and configured protected web resources, can be entered, as well as other options.

Disabled
Load Balancer Health Check Enables or disables load balancing health checks.

Use the Edit button to configure load balancer health checks.

Disabled
URL scheme The URL scheme or protocol used to access back end protected resources. Supported schemes are HTTP and HTTPS.
HTTP
Host Header

Host Header Value

Represents the value of the host header passed to the back end protected web resources.

When enabled, the external fully qualified external name is used (for example, noauth.atko.com).

When disabled, a custom value may be entered.

Disabled application specific
Load Balancing Cookie Cookie value associated with each request sent to back end protected web resources.
Generate value
Configured Protected Web Resources A set of back end protected web resources including weights. Prefixed by URL scheme. See Add Protected Web Resource. N/A

Add Protected Web Resource

Click Add Protected Web Resource to add a protected web resource.

The add protected web resource dialog with a hostname of noauth1.atko.com and weight of 1.

Field Description
Hostname Fully qualified host name of the protected web resource. Must be resolvable in DNS.
Weight

Associated weight. Value from 0-100. 0 (zero) is a special value that means a host is not in use.

Three protected web resources, where each has a weight of 1, have an equal number of requests routed to each of them.

Two protected web resources, that have weights 1 and 2, have twice as many requests (or 66% of the total number of requests) routed to the hostname with a weight of 2, compared to the hostname with a weight of 1.

Health checks

Health checks are used to determine if a back end protected web resource can service requests.

The load balancer edit health check dialog showing default values.

Field Value

Default

Path URI to resource used in health check. /
Method HTTP method used. Always GET
Status code HTTP status code used to determine health. 200
Interval Interval between health checks in seconds. 10
Request timeout Health check request timeout in seconds. 1
Healthy threshold Number of successful requests before a host is considered healthy. 3
Unhealthy threshold Number of failed requests before a host is considered unhealthy. 3

Protected web resources can be in one of three states:

State

Icon

Description
Active Initial state, host entered and active but health unknown.

When health checks are disabled, protected web resources never leave this state.

Healthy Host is responding based on health check settings.
Unhealthy Host isn't responding; new requests won't be routed to it.

Related topics

Load balancing

Health checks for load balancing

Enable Access Gateway load balancing in an application