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Configuring GSLB
The examples in the procedures in this section are based on the configuration shown in Figure 1 on page 4.
TABLE 1 | Configuration tasks: Global SLB |
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DNS proxy parameters |
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Configure a source IP address. The source IP address is required so that the GSLB ServerIron ADX | page 17 | |
can perform the health checks on remote devices. |
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Add a VIP for the DNS server and bind the real server and virtual server. |
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Site parameters |
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Enable the GSLB protocol on each remote ServerIron ADX. | page 19 | |
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Specify the sites and the ServerIron ADXs within the sites. | page 19 | |
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Zone parameters |
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Specify the zones and the host names within the zones. | page 21 | |
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Private Virtual IPs (VIPs) (optional) |
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Enable a site ServerIron ADX to communicate public VIP addresses to a GSLB ServerIron ADX. |
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GSLB parameters (optional) |
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Change the GSLB protocol port number (optional). | page 29 | |
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Change the GSLB protocol update period (optional). | page 30 | |
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Modify the GSLB parameters related to DNS responses. | page 30 | |
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GSLB Policy Metrics |
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Change the order of GSLB policy metrics | page 37 | |
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Disable or enable GSLB policy metrics | page 38 | |
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Clear the DNS selection counters for GSLB metrics |
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Configure the weighted IP metric |
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Configure the weighted site metric |
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Configure the active bindings metric |
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Modify connection load parameters | page 49 | |
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Modify Session Table capacity and Threshold Tolerance values | page 51 | |
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Modify Flashback tolerance values | page 52 | |
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Modify | page 53 | |
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Affinity (optional) |
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Configure the ServerIron ADX to always favor a specific site based on client IP address | page 85 | |
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DNS cache proxy (optional) |
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Configure the ServerIron ADX to directly respond to DNS queries | page 91 | |
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Transparent DNS query intercept (optional) |
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Configure the ServerIron ADX to intercept and redirect DNS queries | page 95 | |
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