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MXS-2414: Document max_auth_failures

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Markus Mäkelä
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Documentation/Getting-Started/Configuration-Guide.md
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@ -950,6 +950,17 @@ configurations volatile (i.e. they are lost when maxscale is restarted), use
the current runtime state of MaxScale. This makes problem analysis easier if an the current runtime state of MaxScale. This makes problem analysis easier if an
unexpected outage happens. unexpected outage happens.
#### `max_auth_failures`
The maximum number of authentication failures that are tolerated before a host
is temporarily blocked. The default value is 10 failures. After a host is
blocked, connections from it are rejected for 60 seconds.
Note that the configured value is not a hard limit. The number of tolerated
failures is between `max_auth_failures` and `threads * max_auth_failures` where
`max_auth_failures` is the configured value of this parameter and `threads` is
the number of configured threads.
### REST API Configuration ### REST API Configuration
The MaxScale REST API is an HTTP interface that provides JSON format data The MaxScale REST API is an HTTP interface that provides JSON format data