Third-party service field descriptions

The following table describes the fields available for managing the applications listed in Sites → Third-Party Services in PingAccess.

Field	Required	Description
Name	Yes	Specify a name that identifies the third-party service.
Targets	Yes	Specify one or more host name:port pairs used to reach the third-party service.
Secure	No	Indicate whether or not the target is expecting a secure connection.

Field

Required

Description

Name

Yes

Specify a name that identifies the third-party service.

Targets

Yes

Specify one or more host name:port pairs used to reach the third-party service.

Secure

Indicate whether or not the target is expecting a secure connection.

To configure advanced settings, expand the Show Advanced Settings section at the bottom of the Third-Party Service tab.

Most of these settings are optional.

Advanced Settings

Field Required Description

Field	Required	Description
Host Value	No	When you specify a Host Value, requests to a third-party service use this value as the host header field value regardless of which target is used.
Skip Hostname Verification	No	For secure connections, select this check box to indicate that the third-party service shouldn’t perform host name verification of the certificate.
Expected Certificate Hostname	No	For secure connections, enter the name of the host expected in the certificate when host name verification is enabled.
Availability Profile	Yes	Indicate the availability profile to use. To create a new availability profile, click Create Availability Profile.
Load Balancing Strategy	No	Select the load-balancing strategy to use if more than one target is defined. If you specify multiple target servers for a third-party service but don’t apply a load balancing strategy, PingAccess uses the first target server in the list until it fails. Secondary target servers are only used if the first target server is not available. PingAccess uses the Failed Retry Timeout from the service’s availability profile settings to determine when to mark the first target server as available again.
Maximum Connections	Yes	Indicates the maximum number of HTTP-persistent connections PingAccess will open and maintain for the service. The default value, `-1`, indicates unlimited connections.
Use Proxy	No	Indicates that requests to the site should use a configured proxy.

Host Value

When you specify a Host Value, requests to a third-party service use this value as the host header field value regardless of which target is used.

Skip Hostname Verification

For secure connections, select this check box to indicate that the third-party service shouldn’t perform host name verification of the certificate.

Expected Certificate Hostname

For secure connections, enter the name of the host expected in the certificate when host name verification is enabled.

Availability Profile

Yes

Indicate the availability profile to use.

To create a new availability profile, click Create Availability Profile.

Load Balancing Strategy

Select the load-balancing strategy to use if more than one target is defined.

If you specify multiple target servers for a third-party service but don’t apply a load balancing strategy, PingAccess uses the first target server in the list until it fails. Secondary target servers are only used if the first target server is not available.

PingAccess uses the Failed Retry Timeout from the service’s availability profile settings to determine when to mark the first target server as available again.

Maximum Connections

Yes

Indicates the maximum number of HTTP-persistent connections PingAccess will open and maintain for the service. The default value, -1, indicates unlimited connections.

Use Proxy

Indicates that requests to the site should use a configured proxy.