Adjusting Advanced Settings

Click the Magnify icon to view the NAS Administrator.


The Advanced Setting Tab allows the administrator to configure how the load-balancing information is gathered and shared.

Base Broadcast/Update Interval

This is also known as the heartbeat broadcast. Each server rebroadcasts its Application Component and Server Load information at the interval set for the Base Broadcast/Update Interval. If any NAS missed the other broadcast interval, it would have the information after the heartbeat broadcast is sent.

Broadcast Intervals

Application Component Criteria

Application Component criteria is broadcast at this interval.

Server Load Criteria

Server Load criteria is broadcast at this interval. The broadcast is an average of the sample data collected at each update interval.

Update Intervals

Server Load

An average of the sample data based on the data and the weight given for that parameter on the Server Load screen.

CPU Load

The interval at which NAS samples the CPU load.

Disk/Input/Output

The interval at which NAS samples the Disk Input/Output rates.

Memory Thrash

The interval at which NAS samples the Memory Thrash rates.

Max Hops

Application Component requests have a hop count associated with them that increments each time the Application Component request is moved from one server to another.

The hop count setting for a server states that any incoming Application Component requests with a hop count equal to or greater than the hop count set for that server cannot be load balanced to another server.