The extended MIB for managing Server Load Balancing
Manager(s). This MIB extends the SLB management
functionality in the CISCO-SLB-MIB. The Cisco Content
Switching Module (CSM) product is the first SLB
product to support this MIB.
        
SLB: Server Load Balancing. Server load balancing
provides for the balancing of packets and connections
arriving at the SLB device across a number of other
devices, such as real servers, firewalls, or caches.
A system containing an SLB device typically exhibits
higher performance, scalability, and reliability than
any of the devices being load balanced.  An SLB device
determines how to handle incoming frames and
connections according to the contents of incoming data
and various configuration options. In determining how
to handle incoming data, an SLB device may examine the
data at any OSI layer, including Layer 7.
        
This MIB includes instrumentation for the manager-side
implementation of the Dynamic Feedback Protocol (DFP).
A DFP manager uses the DFP protocol to communicate with
DFP agents in order to obtain information about the
current load and available capacity of devices.
        
Acronyms and terms:
        
  SLB    Server Load Balancing
  VIP    Virtual Server IP address
  NAT    Network Address Translation
  SF     Serverfarm
  FT     Fault Tolerance
  SSL    Secure Sockets Layer
  TLS    Transport Layer Security