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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
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
The MaxScale REST API is an HTTP interface that provides JSON format data