Inbound traffic management ensures that services remain available even when one or more servers or NetLinks fail, and balances the load of incoming traffic more efficiently between a group of servers. Inbound traffic management is not supported on layer 2 physical interfaces on Engines.
Using Server Pools, you can manage incoming traffic to your web servers.
This guide provides the information you need to work with your Forcepoint product.
The SMC as a Service provides centralized access for configuring, managing, logging, and monitoring NGFWs that secure network connectivity and control business operations.
Routing defines through which next hop router the Engine forwards traffic from a source address to a destination address. Anti-spoofing defines which addresses are considered valid source addresses for the networks connected to each interface.
You can use Multi-Link to distribute outbound traffic between multiple network connections and to provide high availability and load balancing for outbound traffic.
Server Pool elements provide inbound traffic management for traffic to servers in the protected network.
The Server Pool element collects servers that provide a particular service into a single element and defines the settings for handling the inbound traffic.
There are different methods for monitoring whether a server or a service running on a server is available.
Before you can enable Server Pool load balancing using NAT rules, you must create Access rules to allow the type of traffic that is handled by the Server Pool.
NAT rules specify which traffic is directed to the Server Pool. You can use NAT rules to apply both source and destination address translation for Server Pools.
NAT rules are the preferred way to enable Server Pool load balancing. For backward compatibility, it is still possible to enable Server Pool load balancing using Access rules.
The Engine can automatically update dynamic DNS (DDNS) entries for the Server Pool according to the available NetLinks.
Server Pool Monitoring Agents provide advanced features for monitoring the server load and status.
To configure load balancing for multiple web servers, you can set up a Server Pool.
When you set up dynamic DNS updates, the Server Pool NetLink addresses that correspond to the available Internet connections are updated automatically on the DNS server.
When you use Multi-Link for outbound traffic management or Multi-Link VPNs, SMCaaS can dynamically select the NetLink or VPN link that best matches the quality requirements of traffic.