Brocade Communications Systems IP250 user manual Adding ServerIron ADX products to the site

30 GSLB site management

NOTE

The weight of the ServerIron ADX product displays in the IP Weights list of the Add Hosts dialog box.

Adding ServerIron ADX products to the site

You must add at least one site ADC/ADX product to create a site configuration.

1.Click the Add button.

When you click Add, a row is added to the Site ADCs list. The ServerIron ADX products that the Management application has discovered appear in the Site ADC column. The name of the selected ServerIron ADX product displays in the ADC Name column. You can edit the ADC name.

2.Enter a value from 0 through 255 in the Admin Preference column to specify an administrative preference. The default is 128.

The GSLB ServerIron ADX product prefers the site with the highest administrative preference. If you set the preference for a site ServerIron ADX product to 0, the site is administratively removed from GSLB selection.

The GSLB ServerIron ADX product evaluates each IP address in the DNS reply based on a set of criteria. Depending on the results of this evaluation, the GSLB ServerIron ADX product reorders the list to place the best IP address on the top of the list. Usually, the GSLB ServerIron ADX product uses server health as one of the most important criteria to evaluate the server IP addresses in a DNS reply.

The Admin Preference parameter overrides the setting for the Distributed Health Check parameter. You can select the type of health check that will be used. The site default uses the setting for the site Distributed Health Check parameter, described in step 4 of “Adding a site configuration” on page 931.

•If enabled, the site default uses the health check for the ServerIron ADX product site instead of the health check for the GSLB site configured on the site Distributed Health Check parameter.

•If disabled, the health check for this site ServerIron ADX product is disabled, even if the health check for the GSLB site is enabled.

3.Continue to add site ServerIron ADX products. When you have finished, click OK to save your changes.

The new configuration is added to the Site ADCs products list.

NOTE

To delete a site ServerIron ADX product, select it from the Site ADCs list and click Delete.

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