About application protected web resource

Protected web resources are available in Access Gateway version 2022.1.1 and later to support Access Gateway load balancing.
The Protected Web Resources page includes information on load balancing or back end protected web resources, load balancing health checks, host headers ,and more.

The Protected Web Resource pane includes:

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 valued
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 the Add Protected Web Resource to add a protected web resource.

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 meaning not in use. Three protected web resources, all with weights 1, will be routed equal numbers of requests. Two protected web resources, with weights 1 and 2 would route twice as many, or 66% of all requests, to the hostname weighted 2.

Health checks

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

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 is not responding and will not be routed new requests.

Related topics

About Access Gateway load balancing

About load balancing health checks

Add Access Gateway load balancing to an existing application