A unique name that identifies the load balancer rule. The

Managed File Transfer

Gateway configuration specified in will use this name when defining the load balancing option for a particular service. Use the recommended name of

default

for stateful protocols like FTP, FTPS and SFTP. Use the name

https

for stateless protocols like HTTP/S.

The load balancer algorithm to use for the rule. The supported algorithm is

roundrobin

.

For stateless protocols, like HTTPS, sessions must be persisted based on IP addresses. The valid value is

ip

.

When using Session Persistence, this setting determines the expiration of a persisted session. This time is specified in seconds and should be equal to or greater than the session timeout specified for the HTTPS service in . Connections received from the same IP address before the timeout will be routed to the same system as the previous connection. The timeout is also reset each time a connection is made from the same IP address.