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GSLB Policy

Section 8

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Section Objectives
Policy Overview
Policy Metrics
Policy Settings
Policy Configuration

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GSLB Policy
A list of metrics used to determine the best site to use for a given client’s request
Health Check, Round Robin and Geographic enabled by default but can be disabled
All other metrics must be enabled to be used
Applied to the zone or service level within a zone
Features a “Default” policy which is used for all GSLB zones and services unless an
Admin created policy is applied to a zone or service

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GSLB Policy – Metric Evaluation
Each Site metric is evaluated in a (configurable) order and marked when it is matched
Evaluations continue only on marked sites until all configured parameters are checked
Once each Site is evaluated, the user request is sent to the Site with the most matches
In the event of a tie, requests are fulfilled in round robin
Four Site Example: Site A, Site B, Site C and Site D all could potentially handle a client request
Site B fails Health Check, leaving A, C and D for the next metric
Site A and D match on Geographic, eliminating C
Site A has an assigned higher weight than D, eliminating D
Request will be sent to Site A

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GSLB Policy Settings 1 of 2
Health Check (1) Weighted Site (3)
Services that pass health checks are Sites with higher assigned weights are used
preferred * more often

Round Robin (14) Session Capacity (4)


Sites are selected in sequential order * Sites with more available sessions based on
respective maximum Session-Capacity are
Geographic (7) preferred
Services located within the client’s
geographic region are preferred * Active-Servers (5)
Sites with most currently active servers are
Weighted-IP (2) preferred
Service IP with higher assigned weight are NOTE - Numbers in parentheses represent default
used more often than the service-IP with metric order number which can be modified
lower weights
* Enabled by default but can be disabled
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GSLB Policy Settings 2 of 2
Active Round Delay Time (6) Admin Preference (10)
Sites with faster round delay times for DNS The site with the highest admin set
queries and replies between a site and local preference is selected
GSLB are preferred
BW-Cost (11)
Connection Load (8) Selects sites based on bandwidth utilization
Sites that are not exceeding their thresholds on the site AX links
for new connections are preferred
Least Response (12)
Num-Session (9) Service IP addresses with the fewest hits are
Sites that are not exceeding available session preferred
capacity threshold compared to other sites
are treated as having the same preference Admin-IP (13)
IP addresses are preferred based on
administratively assigned weight

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Policy Configuration
To create a Policy use the following
gslb policy [name]

Once in the policy’s context, enable and configure policy entries. Some metrics are
enabled by entering the name of the metric
(config-gslb policy)#least-response

Other metrics are first configured at the site or zone level and then enabled by adding
them to the policy
(config-gslb site-slb dev)#admin-preference ?
<0-255> Specify admin-preference value, default is 100

In the above example, a priority is set at the device level of a site, the metric will then be
evaluated once enabled on the policy
(config-gslb policy)#admin-preference

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Modifying Metric Order – CLI
Use the “metric order” command under the context of the policy followed by the
metrics you wish to use:
(config-gslb policy)#metric-order least-response admin-preference

Using the above example, least-response and admin-preference are now 1 and 2 in the
evaluation order. Heath-check, being the previous number 1 drops to 3
#show gslb policy pol1
------------------------------------
least-response | 1 | | yes
admin-preference | 2 | | yes
health-check | 3 | | yes

The above example is only partial output for the command

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Modifying Metric Order – GUI
Select GSLB> Policy, then press Create button
Select Individual metrics (checkbox)
Drag and drop (up or down) metric entries to
modify their order

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Applying GSLB Policies – CLI
At the zone level
(config)#gslb zone a10training.com
(config-gslb zone)#policy pol-1

At the service level


(config)#gslb zone a10training.com
(config-gslb zone)#service http www
(config-gslb zone-gslb service)#policy pol-2

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Applying GSLB Policies – GUI
Select GSLB > FQDN, then press the Create button
Enter a zone name and choose a policy from dropdown for Zone level.

To apply at Service level, from the Zone page, select the service name and click edit.
Choose policy from the dropdown.

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GSLB Policy Best Practices
For “Active Standby” data centers use Admin IP policy to always send traffic to primary
site, unless it is unreachable
For “Active Active” scenarios, take advantage of geo-location, weighting, or RTT to
determine best site to send client request

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