Create the Qlik application
- Create the application in Access Gateway
- Configure the application
- Configure load balancing(Optional)
Create the application in Access Gateway
- Sign in to the Access Gateway Admin UI console.
- Click the Applications tab.
- Click +Add.
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Select Qlik from the application menu, and click Create.
See Supported applications and versions for a list of supported applications and versions.
Configure the application
- In the Essentials pane enter:
Field Value Label The name of the application (for example: Qlik application). Public Domain The externally facing URL of the application. For example, https://qlik.<gateway.info> Protected Web Resource The URL and port combination of the Qlik application being protected.
For example: http://qlik.<internal.info>.
See also Configure load balancing.Group The group containing users who can access the Qlik application.
Configure load balancing
Only use Access Gateway as the load balancer. See Load balancing.
- Expand the Protected Web Resource tab.
- Enable Load Balancing By Access Gateway.
A table of hostnames and weights representing the target load balancing instances appears. This table is initially empty. Click edit to modify an entry in the table, or click delete to delete an entry.
- Choose either HTTP or HTTPS as the URL scheme. Each protected web resource that you add inherits this scheme.
- Optional. Enable and specify Host Header value.
- Complete the following steps to add a host, repeat as required:
- Click Add protected web resource.
- Enter a fully qualified hostname:port combination (for example, https://backendserver1.atko.com:7001).
- Enter a weight from 1 to 100. Enter 0 to specify that a host is disabled.
Weights represent the percentage of requests that will be routed to this host.
For example, two hosts of weights 2:1 would result in requests being routed ~66% to the host weighted 2 and ~33% to the host weighted 1.
- Click Okay.
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Optional. Configure health checks, which use GET operations to confirm that back-end resources are functional.
New requests aren't routed to resources that have been labeled unhealthy by the health checks.
- Enable Load Balancer Health Check.
- Click Edit to modify health check settings.
- Modify settings as required.
Field Value Default
Path The URI path to the resource used in health check. / Method The HTTP method used. Always GET Status code The HTTP status code used to determine health. 200 Interval The interval between health checks in seconds. 10 Request timeout The health check request timeout in seconds. 1 Healthy threshold The number of requests that must succeed before a host is considered healthy. 3 Unhealthy threshold The number of requests that must fail before a host is considered unhealthy. 3 - Click Save to save changes or click Cancel to exit without saving.