Brocade Communications Systems ServerIron ADX 12.4.00 - Manual (Page 27)

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