Updating an AutoScale Configuration

Configuring AutoScale

•Polling interval: Frequency in which the conditions, combination of counter, operator and threshold, are to be evaluated before taking a scale up or down action. The default polling interval is 30 seconds.

•Quiet Time: This is the cool down period after an AutoScale action is initiated. The time includes the time taken to complete provisioning a VM instance from its template and the time taken by an application to be ready to serve traffic. This quiet time allows the fleet to come up to a stable state before any action can take place. The default is 300 seconds.

•Destroy VM Grace Period: The duration in seconds, after a scaledown action is initiated, to wait before the VM is destroyed as part of scaledown action. This is to ensure graceful close of any pending sessions or transactions being served by the VM marked for destroy. The default is 120 seconds.

•Security Groups: (Enabled only for Basic zones.) Security groups provide a way to isolate traffic to the VM instances. A security group is a group of VMs that filter their incoming and outgoing traffic according to a set of rules, called ingress and egress rules. These rules filter network traffic according to the IP address that is attempting to communicate with the VM.

•Disk Offerings: A predefined set of disk size for primary data storage.

•SNMP Community: The SNMP community string to be used by the NetScaler device to query the configured counter value from the provisioned VM instances. Default is public.

•SNMP Port: The port number on which the SNMP agent that run on the provisioned VMs is listening. Default port is 161.

•User: This is the user that the NetScaler device use to invoke scaleup and scaledown API calls to the cloud. If no option is specified, the user who configures AutoScaling is applied. Specify another user name to override.

•Apply: Click Apply to create the AutoScale configuration.

Disabling and Enabling an AutoScale Configuration

If you want to perform any maintenance operation on the AutoScale VM instances, disable the AutoScale configuration. When the AutoScale configuration is disabled, no scaleup or scaledown action is performed. You can use this downtime for the maintenance activities. To disable the

AutoScale configuration, click the Disable AutoScale button.

The button toggles between enable and disable, depending on whether AutoScale is currently enabled or not. After the maintenance operations are done, you can enable the AutoScale configuration back.

To enable, open the AutoScale configuration page again, then click the Enable AutoScale button.

You can update the various parameters and add or delete the conditions in a scaleup or scaledown rule. Before you update an AutoScale configuration, ensure that you disable the AutoScale load balancer rule by clicking the Disable AutoScale button.

After you modify the required AutoScale parameters, click Apply. To apply the new AutoScale policies, open the AutoScale configuration page again, then click the Enable AutoScale button.

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4.2 specifications

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Citrix Systems 4.2 manual Disabling and Enabling an AutoScale Configuration

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Disabling and Enabling an AutoScale Configuration

Updating an AutoScale Configuration

4.2 specifications