ADC CLI Commands

gslb-vserver

The following operations can be performed on “gslb-vserver”:

bind unbind disable rename show unset stat rm set add enable

bind gslb vserver

Binds a domain, service, backup IP address, or cookie domain to a GSLB virtual server.

Synopsis

bind gslb vserver \(\(-serviceName \[-weight <positive\_integer>] \[-order <positive\_integer>]) | -serviceGroupName @ | \(-domainName \[-TTL ] \[-backupIP <ip\_addr|ipv6\_addr|\*>] \[-cookieDomain ] \[-cookieTimeout ] \[-sitedomainTTL ]) | \(-policyName @ \[-priority <positive\_integer>] \[-gotoPriorityExpression ] \[-type ]))

Arguments

name Name of the virtual server on which to perform the binding operation.

serviceName Name of the GSLB service for which to change the weight.

weight Weight to assign to the GSLB service. Default value: 1 Minimum value: 1 Maximum value: 100

serviceGroupName Name of the service group.

domainName Domain name for which to change the time to live (TTL) and/or backup service IP address.

TTL Time to live (TTL) for the domain. Minimum value: 1

backupIP The IP address of the backup service for the specified domain name. Used when all the services bound to the domain are down, or when the backup chain of virtual servers is down.

cookieDomain The cookie domain for the GSLB site. Used when inserting the GSLB site cookie in the HTTP response.

cookieTimeout Timeout, in minutes, for the GSLB site cookie.

sitedomainTTL TTL, in seconds, for all internally created site domains (created when a site prefix is configured on a GSLB service) that are associated with this virtual server. Default value: 3600 Minimum value: 1

policyName Name of the policy bound to the GSLB vserver.

priority Priority. Minimum value: 1 Maximum value: 2147483647

gotoPriorityExpression Expression specifying the priority of the next policy which will get evaluated if the current policy rule evaluates to TRUE. oIf gotoPriorityExpression is not present or if it is equal to END then the policy bank evaluation ends here oElse if the gotoPriorityExpression is equal to NEXT then the next policy in the priority order is evaluated. oElse gotoPriorityExpression is evaluated. The result of gotoPriorityExpression (which has to be a number) is processed as follows: -An UNDEF event is triggered if .gotoPriorityExpression cannot be evaluated .gotoPriorityExpression evaluates to number which is smaller than the maximum priority in the policy bank but is not same as any policy’s priority .gotoPriorityExpression evaluates to a priority that is smaller than the current policy’s priority -If the gotoPriorityExpression evaluates to the priority of the current policy then the next policy in the priority order is evaluated. -If the gotoPriorityExpression evaluates to the priority of a policy further ahead in the list then that policy will be evaluated next. This field is applicable only to rewrite and responder policies.

type Bind point to which to bind the policy.

Possible values: REQUEST, RESPONSE, MQTT_JUMBO_REQ

order Order number to be assigned to the service when it is bound to the lb vserver. Minimum value: 1 Maximum value: 8192

Example

bind gslb vserver gvip -domainName www.mynw.com

unbind gslb vserver

Unbinds the domain or service from the GSLB virtual server.

Synopsis

unbind gslb vserver \(-serviceName | -serviceGroupName @ | \(-domainName \[-backupIP] \[-cookieDomain]) | -policyName @)

Arguments

name Name of the GSLB virtual server.

serviceName Name of the GSLB service for which to change the weight.

serviceGroupName The name of the service group that is unbound.

domainName Domain name for which to change the time to live (TTL) and/or backup service IP address.

backupIP The IP address of the backup service for the specified domain name. Used when all the services bound to the domain are down, or when the backup chain of virtual servers is down.

cookieDomain The cookie domain for the GSLB site. Used when inserting the GSLB site cookie in the HTTP response.

policyName The policy that has been bound to this load balancing virtual server, using the ###bind gslb vserver### command.

Example

unbind gslb vserver gvip -domainName www.mynw.com

disable gslb vserver

Disables a global server load balancing (GSLB) virtual server and takes it out of service.

Synopsis

disable gslb vserver @

Arguments

name Name of the GSLB virtual server to disable.

Example

disable gslb vserver gslb_vip To disable multiple gslb vservers use the following command: disable gslb vserver gslb_vip[1-3]

rename gslb vserver

Renames a global server load balancing (GSLB) virtual server.

Synopsis

rename gslb vserver @ @

Arguments

name Existing name of the GSLB virtual server.

newName New name for the GSLB virtual server.

Example

rename gslb vserver gsl_vsvr gslb_vsvr_new

show gslb vserver

Displays the parameters of all the global server load balancing (GSLB) virtual servers configured on the appliance, or the parameters of the specified GSLB virtual server.

Synopsis

show gslb vserver [] show gslb vserver stats - alias for 'stat gslb vserver'

Arguments

name Name of the GSLB virtual server.

Output

serviceType Protocol used by services bound to the virtual server.

state State of the GSLB virtual server.

ipType The IP type for this GSLB vserver.

dnsRecordType The IP type for this GSLB vserver.

persistenceType Indicates if persistence is set on the gslb vserver

persistenceId Persistence id of the gslb vserver

lbMethod The load balancing method set for the virtual server

backupLBMethod Indicates the backup method in case the primary fails

tolerance Indicates the deviation we can tolerate when we have the LB method as RTT

timeout Idle timeout for persistence entries.

state State of the gslb vserver.

netmask The netmask used in the SOURCEIPHASH policy.

v6netmasklen The netmask used for ipv6 traffic in the SOURCE/DEST IPHASH policy.

persistMask The netmask used while SOURCEIP based persistency is ENABLED.

v6persistmasklen The netmask applied for ipv6 traffic when the persistency type is SOURCEIP.

serviceName The service name.

weight Weight for the service.

domainName The name of the domain for which TTL and/or backupIP has changed.

TTL TTL for the given domain.

backupIP Backup IP for the given domain.

cookieDomain The cookie domain for the GSLB domain. This will be used when inserting the GSLB site cookie in the HTTP response. By default, cookie domain will not be inserted.

cookieTimeout Time out value of the cookie in minutes

sitedomainTTL Site domain TTL.

IPAddress IP address.

port Port number.

status Current status of the gslb vserver. During the initial phase if the configured lb method is not round robin , the vserver will adopt round robin to distribute traffic for a predefined number of requests.

lbrrreason Reason why a vserver is in RR. The following are the reasons: 1 - MEP is DOWN (GSLB) 2 - LB method has changed 3 - Bound service’s state changed to UP 4 - A new service is bound 5 - Startup RR factor has changed 6 - LB feature is enabled 7 - Load monitor is not active on a service 8 - Vserver is Enabled 9 - SSL feature is Enabled 10 - All bound services have reached threshold. Using effective state to load balance (GSLB) 11 - Primary state of bound services are not UP. Using effective state to load balance (GSLB) 12 - No LB decision can be made as all bound services have either reached threshold or are not UP (GSLB) 13 - All load monitors are active

preferredLocation The target site to be returned in the DNS response when a policy is successfully evaluated against the incoming DNS request. Target site is specified in dotted notation with up to 6 qualifiers. Wildcard `*’ is accepted as a valid qualifier token.

backupVServer Backup vserver in case the primary fails

backupSessionTimeout A non zero value enables the feature. The minimum value is 2 minutes. To disable the feature set the value to zero. The created session is in effect for a specific client per domain.

EDR Indicates if Empty Down Response is enabled/disabled

ECS If enabled, respond with EDNS Client Subnet (ECS) option in the response for a DNS query with ECS. The ECS address will be used for persistence and spillover persistence (if enabled) instead of the LDNS address. Persistence mask is ignored if ECS is enabled.

ecsAddrValidation Validate if ECS address is a private or unroutable address and in such cases, use the LDNS IP.

MIR Indicates if Multi IP Response is enabled/disabled

disablePrimaryOnDown Continue to direct traffic to the backup chain even after the primary GSLB virtual server returns to the UP state. Used when spillover is configured for the virtual server.

dynamicWeight Dynamic weight method. Possible values are, the svc count or the svc weights or ignore both.

isCname is cname feature set on vserver

cumulativeWeight Cumulative weight is the weight of GSLB service considering both its configured weight and dynamic weight. It is equal to product of dynamic weight and configured weight of the gslb service

dynamicConfWt Weight obtained by the virtue of bound service count or weight

thresholdValue Tells whether threshold exceeded for this service participating in CUSTOMLB

sitePersistence Type of Site Persistence set

svrEffGslbState Effective state of the gslb svc

gslbthreshold Indicates if gslb svc has reached threshold

considerEffectiveState If the primary state of all bound GSLB services is DOWN, consider the effective states of all the GSLB services, obtained through the Metrics Exchange Protocol (MEP), when determining the state of the GSLB virtual server. To consider the effective state, set the parameter to STATE_ONLY. To disregard the effective state, set the parameter to NONE.

The effective state of a GSLB service is the ability of the corresponding virtual server to serve traffic. The effective state of the load balancing virtual server, which is transferred to the GSLB service, is UP even if only one virtual server in the backup chain of virtual servers is in the UP state.

cnameEntry The cname of the gslb service.

totalServices Total number of services bound to the vserver.

activeServices Total number of active services bound to the vserver.

stateChangeTimeSec Time when last state change happened. Seconds part.

stateChangeTimemSec Time at which last state change happened. Milliseconds part.

ticksSinceLastStateChange Time in 10 millisecond ticks since the last state change.

comment Any comments that you might want to associate with the GSLB virtual server.

soPersistenceTimeOut Timeout for spillover persistence, in minutes.

soMethod Type of threshold that, when exceeded, triggers spillover. Available settings function as follows:

  • CONNECTION - Spillover occurs when the number of client connections exceeds the threshold.
  • DYNAMICCONNECTION - Spillover occurs when the number of client connections at the GSLB virtual server exceeds the sum of the maximum client (Max Clients) settings for bound GSLB services. Do not specify a spillover threshold for this setting, because the threshold is implied by the Max Clients settings of the bound GSLB services.
  • BANDWIDTH - Spillover occurs when the bandwidth consumed by the GSLB virtual server’s incoming and outgoing traffic exceeds the threshold.
  • HEALTH - Spillover occurs when the percentage of weights of the GSLB services that are UP drops below the threshold. For example, if services gslbSvc1, gslbSvc2, and gslbSvc3 are bound to a virtual server, with weights 1, 2, and 3, and the spillover threshold is 50%, spillover occurs if gslbSvc1 and gslbSvc3 or gslbSvc2 and gslbSvc3 transition to DOWN.
  • NONE - Spillover does not occur.

soBackupAction Action to be performed if spillover is to take effect, but no backup chain to spillover is usable or exists

soPersistence If spillover occurs, maintain source IP address based persistence for both primary and backup GSLB virtual servers.

soThreshold Threshold at which spillover occurs. Specify an integer for the CONNECTION spillover method, a bandwidth value in kilobits per second for the BANDWIDTH method (do not enter the units), or a percentage for the HEALTH method (do not enter the percentage symbol).

health Health of vserver based on percentage of weights of active svcs/all svcs. This does not consider administratively disabled svcs

stateflag stateflag

appflowLog Enable logging appflow flow information

policyName Name of the policy bound to the GSLB vserver.

priority Priority.

gotoPriorityExpression Expression specifying the priority of the next policy which will get evaluated if the current policy rule evaluates to TRUE. oIf gotoPriorityExpression is not present or if it is equal to END then the policy bank evaluation ends here oElse if the gotoPriorityExpression is equal to NEXT then the next policy in the priority order is evaluated. oElse gotoPriorityExpression is evaluated. The result of gotoPriorityExpression (which has to be a number) is processed as follows: -An UNDEF event is triggered if .gotoPriorityExpression cannot be evaluated .gotoPriorityExpression evaluates to number which is smaller than the maximum priority in the policy bank but is not same as any policy’s priority .gotoPriorityExpression evaluates to a priority that is smaller than the current policy’s priority -If the gotoPriorityExpression evaluates to the priority of the current policy then the next policy in the priority order is evaluated. -If the gotoPriorityExpression evaluates to the priority of a policy further ahead in the list then that policy will be evaluated next. This field is applicable only to rewrite and responder policies.

type The bindpoint to which the policy is bound

vsvrbindsvcip used for showing the ip of bound entities

vsvrbindsvcport used for showing ports of bound entities

gslbBoundSvcType Protocol used by services bound to the GSLBvirtual server.

sitePersistCookie This field is introduced for displaying the cookie in cluster setup.

svcSitePersistence Type of Site Persistence set on the bound service

svcitmnum This field is introduced for maintaining service items ordering while displaying gslb service groups

svcgrnm This field is introduced for displaying service groups bound to vserver.

serverName This field is used to display server name in case of GSLB servicegroup binding to GSLB vserver

serviceGroupName The GSLB service group name bound to the selected GSLB virtual server.

noDefaultBindings to determine if the configuration will have default ssl CIPHER and ECC curve bindings

rule Rule type

order Order number to be assigned to the service when it is bound to the lb vserver.

order Order number in string form assigned to the service when it is bound to the lb vserver.

toggleorder Configure this option to toggle order preference

orderthreshold This option is used to to specify the threshold of minimum number of services to be UP in an order, for it to be considered in Lb decision.

CurrentActiveOrder current order that takes the traffic in case service or servicegroup is bound with order

devno count

Example

show gslb vserver gvip

unset gslb vserver

Removes the specified settings from the specified global server load balancing (GSLB) virtual server. Attributes for which a default value is available revert to their default values..Refer to the set gslb vserver command for meanings of the arguments.

Synopsis

unset gslb vserver @ [-backupVServer] [-serviceName [-order]] [-serviceGroupName ] [-dnsRecordType] [-lbMethod] [-backupLBMethod] [-netmask] [-v6netmasklen] [-tolerance] [-persistenceType] [-persistenceId] [-persistMask] [-v6persistmasklen] [-timeout] [-EDR] [-ECS] [-ecsAddrValidation] [-MIR] [-disablePrimaryOnDown] [-dynamicWeight] [-considerEffectiveState] [-soMethod] [-soPersistence] [-soPersistenceTimeOut] [-soBackupAction] [-weight] [-comment] [-appflowLog] [-rule] [-toggleorder] [-orderthreshold]

Example

unset gslb vserver lb_vip -backupVServer For multiple gslb vservers the command is: unset gslb vserver lb_vip[1-3] -backupVServer

stat gslb vserver

Displays statistics associated with a global server load balancing (GSLB) virtual server.

Synopsis

stat gslb vserver [] \[-detail] \[-fullValues] \[-ntimes <positive\_integer>] \[-logFile <input\_filename>] \[-clearstats \( basic | full )]

Arguments

name Name of the GSLB virtual server for which to display statistics. If you do not specify a name, statistics are displayed for all GSLB virtual servers.

detail Specifies detailed output (including more statistics). The output can be quite voluminous. Without this argument, the output will show only a summary.

fullValues Specifies that numbers and strings should be displayed in their full form. Without this option, long strings are shortened and large numbers are abbreviated

ntimes The number of times, in intervals of seven seconds, the statistics should be displayed. Default value: 1 Minimum value: 0

logFile The name of the log file to be used as input.

clearstats Clear the statsistics / counters

Possible values: basic, full

Output

count devno stateflag

Counters

Current Client Est connections (ClntEstConn) Number of client connections in ESTABLISHED state.

total INACTIVE services (inactSvcs) number of INACTIVE services bound to a vserver

Vserver Health (Health) Health of the vserver. This gives percentage of UP services bound to this vserver.

Vserver protocol (Protocol) Protocol associated with the vserver

State Current state of the server. There are seven possible values: UP(7), DOWN(1), UNKNOWN(2), BUSY(3), OFS(Out of Service)(4), TROFS(Transition Out of Service)(5), TROFS_DOWN(Down When going Out of Service)(8)

total ACTIVE services (actSvcs) number of ACTIVE services bound to a vserver

Vserver hits (Hits) Total vserver hits

Primary LB Method Failures (Backup LB Hits) Total backup LB method hits

Backup LB Method Failures (Backup LB Fail) Total backup LB method fails

Current Persistence Sessions (PersistenceSessions) current vserver owned persistence sessions

Vserver Persistence Hits (Total Vserver Persistence Hits) Total number of Persistence hits at vserver

Request bytes (Reqb) Total number of request bytes received on this service or virtual server.

Response bytes (Rspb) Number of response bytes received by this service or virtual server.

Spill Over Threshold (SOThresh) Spill Over Threshold set on the VServer.

Spill Over Hits (NumSo ) Number of times vserver experienced spill over.

Vserver Down Backup Hits (VserverDownBackupHits ) Number of times traffic was diverted to backup vserver since primary vserver was DOWN.

Requests (Req) Total number of requests received on this service or virtual server. (This applies to HTTP/SSL services and servers.)

Responses (Rsp) Number of responses received on this service or virtual server. (This applies to HTTP/SSL services and servers.)

Current client connections (ClntConn) Number of current client connections.

Current server connections (SvrConn) Number of current connections to the actual servers behind the virtual server.

Current Server Est connections (SvrEstConn) Number of server connections in ESTABLISHED state.

rm gslb vserver

Removes a global server load balancing (GSLB) virtual server configured on the appliance.

Synopsis

rm gslb vserver

Arguments

name Name of the GSLB virtual server to remove.

Example

rm gslb vserver gvip

set gslb vserver

Modifies the specified parameters of a global server load balancing (GSLB) virtual server.

Synopsis

set gslb vserver \[-dnsRecordType ] \[-backupVServer ] \[-lbMethod ] \[-backupLBMethod ] \[-netmask ] \[-v6netmasklen <positive\_integer>] \[-tolerance <positive\_integer>] \[-persistenceType \( SOURCEIP | NONE )] \[-persistenceId <positive\_integer>] \[-persistMask ] \[-v6persistmasklen <positive\_integer>] \[-timeout ] \[-EDR \( ENABLED | DISABLED )] \[-ECS \( ENABLED | DISABLED )] \[-ecsAddrValidation \( ENABLED | DISABLED )] \[-MIR \( ENABLED | DISABLED )] \[-disablePrimaryOnDown \( ENABLED | DISABLED )] \[-dynamicWeight ] \[-considerEffectiveState \( NONE | STATE\_ONLY )] \[-soMethod ] \[-soPersistence \( ENABLED | DISABLED )] \[-soPersistenceTimeOut <positive\_integer>] \[-soThreshold <positive\_integer>] \[-soBackupAction ] \[-serviceName \[-weight <positive\_integer>] \[-order <positive\_integer>]] \[-serviceGroupName ] \[-domainName \[-TTL ] \[-backupIP <ip\_addr|ipv6\_addr|\*>] \[-cookieDomain ] \[-cookieTimeout ] \[-sitedomainTTL ]] \[-comment ] \[-appflowLog \( ENABLED | DISABLED )] \[-rule ] \[-toggleorder \( ASCENDING | DESCENDING )] \[-orderthreshold <positive\_integer>]

Arguments

name Name of the GSLB virtual server.

dnsRecordType DNS record type to associate with the GSLB virtual server’s domain name.

Possible values: A, AAAA, CNAME, NAPTR Default value: A

backupVServer Name of the backup GSLB virtual server to which the appliance should to forward requests if the status of the primary GSLB virtual server is down or exceeds its spillover threshold.

lbMethod Load balancing method for the GSLB virtual server.

Possible values: ROUNDROBIN, LEASTCONNECTION, LEASTRESPONSETIME, SOURCEIPHASH, LEASTBANDWIDTH, LEASTPACKETS, STATICPROXIMITY, RTT, CUSTOMLOAD, API Default value: LEASTCONNECTION

backupLBMethod Backup load balancing method. Becomes operational if the primary load balancing method fails or cannot be used. Valid only if the primary method is based on either round-trip time (RTT) or static proximity.

Possible values: ROUNDROBIN, LEASTCONNECTION, LEASTRESPONSETIME, SOURCEIPHASH, LEASTBANDWIDTH, LEASTPACKETS, STATICPROXIMITY, RTT, CUSTOMLOAD, API

netmask IPv4 network mask for use in the SOURCEIPHASH load balancing method. Default value: 0xFFFFFFFF

v6netmasklen Number of bits to consider, in an IPv6 source IP address, for creating the hash that is required by the SOURCEIPHASH load balancing method. Default value: 128 Minimum value: 1 Maximum value: 128

tolerance Tolerance in milliseconds. Tolerance value is used in deciding which sites in a GSLB configuration must be considered for implementing the RTT load balancing method. The sites having the RTT value less than or equal to the sum of the lowest RTT and tolerance value are considered. NetScaler implements the round robin method of global server load balancing among these considered sites. The sites that have RTT value greater than this value are not considered. The logic is applied for each LDNS and based on the LDNS, the sites that are considered might change. For example, a site that is considered for requests coming from LDNS1 might not be considered for requests coming from LDNS2. Minimum value: 0 Maximum value: 100

persistenceType Persistence type for the virtual server. Possible value for this parameter is SOURCEIP, which specifies persistence based on the source IP address of inbound packets. After the load balancing method selects a link for transmission of the first packet, the IP address received in response to the DNS query is used for subsequent requests from the same client.

Possible values: SOURCEIP, NONE

persistenceId The persistence ID for the GSLB virtual server. The ID is a positive integer that enables GSLB sites to identify the GSLB virtual server, and is required if source IP address based or spill over based persistence is enabled on the virtual server. Minimum value: 0 Maximum value: 65535

persistMask The optional IPv4 network mask applied to IPv4 addresses to establish source IP address based persistence. Default value: 0xFFFFFFFF

v6persistmasklen Number of bits to consider in an IPv6 source IP address when creating source IP address based persistence sessions. Default value: 128 Minimum value: 1 Maximum value: 128

timeout Idle time, in minutes, after which a persistence entry is cleared. Default value: 2 Minimum value: 2 Maximum value: 1440

EDR Send clients an empty DNS response when the GSLB virtual server is DOWN.

Possible values: ENABLED, DISABLED Default value: DISABLED

ECS If enabled, respond with EDNS Client Subnet (ECS) option in the response for a DNS query with ECS. The ECS address will be used for persistence and spillover persistence (if enabled) instead of the LDNS address. Persistence mask is ignored if ECS is enabled.

Possible values: ENABLED, DISABLED Default value: DISABLED

ecsAddrValidation Validate if ECS address is a private or unroutable address and in such cases, use the LDNS IP.

Possible values: ENABLED, DISABLED Default value: DISABLED

MIR Include multiple IP addresses in the DNS responses sent to clients.

Possible values: ENABLED, DISABLED Default value: DISABLED

disablePrimaryOnDown Continue to direct traffic to the backup chain even after the primary GSLB virtual server returns to the UP state. Used when spillover is configured for the virtual server.

Possible values: ENABLED, DISABLED Default value: DISABLED

dynamicWeight Specify if the appliance should consider the service count, service weights, or ignore both when using weight-based load balancing methods. The state of the number of services bound to the virtual server help the appliance to select the service.

Possible values: SERVICECOUNT, SERVICEWEIGHT, DISABLED Default value: DISABLED

considerEffectiveState If the primary state of all bound GSLB services is DOWN, consider the effective states of all the GSLB services, obtained through the Metrics Exchange Protocol (MEP), when determining the state of the GSLB virtual server. To consider the effective state, set the parameter to STATE_ONLY. To disregard the effective state, set the parameter to NONE.

The effective state of a GSLB service is the ability of the corresponding virtual server to serve traffic. The effective state of the load balancing virtual server, which is transferred to the GSLB service, is UP even if only one virtual server in the backup chain of virtual servers is in the UP state.

Possible values: NONE, STATE_ONLY Default value: NONE

soMethod Type of threshold that, when exceeded, triggers spillover. Available settings function as follows:

  • CONNECTION - Spillover occurs when the number of client connections exceeds the threshold.
  • DYNAMICCONNECTION - Spillover occurs when the number of client connections at the GSLB virtual server exceeds the sum of the maximum client (Max Clients) settings for bound GSLB services. Do not specify a spillover threshold for this setting, because the threshold is implied by the Max Clients settings of the bound GSLB services.
  • BANDWIDTH - Spillover occurs when the bandwidth consumed by the GSLB virtual server’s incoming and outgoing traffic exceeds the threshold.
  • HEALTH - Spillover occurs when the percentage of weights of the GSLB services that are UP drops below the threshold. For example, if services gslbSvc1, gslbSvc2, and gslbSvc3 are bound to a virtual server, with weights 1, 2, and 3, and the spillover threshold is 50%, spillover occurs if gslbSvc1 and gslbSvc3 or gslbSvc2 and gslbSvc3 transition to DOWN.
  • NONE - Spillover does not occur.

Possible values: CONNECTION, DYNAMICCONNECTION, BANDWIDTH, HEALTH, NONE

soPersistence If spillover occurs, maintain source IP address based persistence for both primary and backup GSLB virtual servers.

Possible values: ENABLED, DISABLED Default value: DISABLED

soPersistenceTimeOut Timeout for spillover persistence, in minutes. Default value: 2 Minimum value: 2 Maximum value: 1440

soThreshold Threshold at which spillover occurs. Specify an integer for the CONNECTION spillover method, a bandwidth value in kilobits per second for the BANDWIDTH method (do not enter the units), or a percentage for the HEALTH method (do not enter the percentage symbol). Minimum value: 1 Maximum value: 4294967287

soBackupAction Action to be performed if spillover is to take effect, but no backup chain to spillover is usable or exists

Possible values: DROP, ACCEPT, REDIRECT

serviceName Name of the GSLB service for which to change the weight.

weight Weight for the service. Minimum value: 1 Maximum value: 100

serviceGroupName The GSLB service group name bound to the selected GSLB virtual server.

domainName Domain name for which to change the time to live (TTL) and/or backup service IP address.

TTL Time to live (TTL) for the domain. Minimum value: 1

backupIP The IP address of the backup service for the specified domain name. Used when all the services bound to the domain are down, or when the backup chain of virtual servers is down.

cookieDomain The cookie domain for the GSLB site. Used when inserting the GSLB site cookie in the HTTP response.

cookieTimeout Timeout, in minutes, for the GSLB site cookie. Maximum value: 1440

sitedomainTTL TTL, in seconds, for all internally created site domains (created when a site prefix is configured on a GSLB service) that are associated with this virtual server. Minimum value: 1

comment Any comments that you might want to associate with the GSLB virtual server.

appflowLog Enable logging appflow flow information

Possible values: ENABLED, DISABLED Default value: ENABLED

rule Expression, or name of a named expression, against which traffic is evaluated. This field is applicable only if gslb method or gslb backup method are set to API. The following requirements apply only to the Citrix ADC CLI:

  • If the expression includes one or more spaces, enclose the entire expression in double quotation marks.
  • If the expression itself includes double quotation marks, escape the quotations by using the \ character.
  • Alternatively, you can use single quotation marks to enclose the rule, in which case you do not have to escape the double quotation marks. Default value: “none”

toggleorder Configure this option to toggle order preference

Possible values: ASCENDING, DESCENDING Default value: ASCENDING

orderthreshold This option is used to to specify the threshold of minimum number of services to be UP in an order, for it to be considered in Lb decision. Default value: 0 Minimum value: 0 Maximum value: 100

order Order number to be assigned to the service when it is bound to the lb vserver. Minimum value: 1 Maximum value: 8192

Example

set gslb vserver gvip -persistenceType SOURCEIP

add gslb vserver

Creates a global server load balancing (GSLB) virtual server.

Synopsis

add gslb vserver \[-dnsRecordType ] \[-lbMethod ] \[-backupLBMethod ] \[-netmask ] \[-v6netmasklen <positive\_integer>] \[-rule ] \[-tolerance <positive\_integer>] \[-persistenceType \( SOURCEIP | NONE )] \[-persistenceId <positive\_integer>] \[-persistMask ] \[-v6persistmasklen <positive\_integer>] \[-timeout ] \[-EDR \( ENABLED | DISABLED )] \[-ECS \( ENABLED | DISABLED )] \[-ecsAddrValidation \( ENABLED | DISABLED )] \[-MIR \( ENABLED | DISABLED )] \[-disablePrimaryOnDown \( ENABLED | DISABLED )] \[-dynamicWeight ] \[-state \( ENABLED | DISABLED )] \[-considerEffectiveState \( NONE | STATE\_ONLY )] \[-comment ] \[-soMethod ] \[-soPersistence \( ENABLED | DISABLED )] \[-soPersistenceTimeOut <positive\_integer>] \[-soThreshold <positive\_integer>] \[-soBackupAction ] \[-appflowLog \( ENABLED | DISABLED )] \[-toggleorder \( ASCENDING | DESCENDING )] \[-orderthreshold <positive\_integer>]

Arguments

name Name for the GSLB virtual server. Must begin with an ASCII alphanumeric or underscore (_) character, and must contain only ASCII alphanumeric, underscore, hash (#), period (.), space, colon (:), at (@), equals (=), and hyphen (-) characters. Can be changed after the virtual server is created.

CLI Users: If the name includes one or more spaces, enclose the name in double or single quotation marks (for example, “my vserver” or ‘my vserver’).

serviceType Protocol used by services bound to the virtual server.

Possible values: HTTP, FTP, TCP, UDP, SSL, SSL_BRIDGE, SSL_TCP, NNTP, ANY, SIP_UDP, SIP_TCP, SIP_SSL, RADIUS, RDP, RTSP, MYSQL, MSSQL, ORACLE

dnsRecordType DNS record type to associate with the GSLB virtual server’s domain name.

Possible values: A, AAAA, CNAME, NAPTR Default value: A

lbMethod Load balancing method for the GSLB virtual server.

Possible values: ROUNDROBIN, LEASTCONNECTION, LEASTRESPONSETIME, SOURCEIPHASH, LEASTBANDWIDTH, LEASTPACKETS, STATICPROXIMITY, RTT, CUSTOMLOAD, API Default value: LEASTCONNECTION

backupLBMethod Backup load balancing method. Becomes operational if the primary load balancing method fails or cannot be used. Valid only if the primary method is based on either round-trip time (RTT) or static proximity.

Possible values: ROUNDROBIN, LEASTCONNECTION, LEASTRESPONSETIME, SOURCEIPHASH, LEASTBANDWIDTH, LEASTPACKETS, STATICPROXIMITY, RTT, CUSTOMLOAD, API

netmask IPv4 network mask for use in the SOURCEIPHASH load balancing method. Default value: 0xFFFFFFFF

v6netmasklen Number of bits to consider, in an IPv6 source IP address, for creating the hash that is required by the SOURCEIPHASH load balancing method. Default value: 128 Minimum value: 1 Maximum value: 128

rule Expression, or name of a named expression, against which traffic is evaluated. This field is applicable only if gslb method or gslb backup method are set to API. The following requirements apply only to the Citrix ADC CLI:

  • If the expression includes one or more spaces, enclose the entire expression in double quotation marks.
  • If the expression itself includes double quotation marks, escape the quotations by using the \ character.
  • Alternatively, you can use single quotation marks to enclose the rule, in which case you do not have to escape the double quotation marks. Default value: “none”

tolerance Tolerance in milliseconds. Tolerance value is used in deciding which sites in a GSLB configuration must be considered for implementing the RTT load balancing method. The sites having the RTT value less than or equal to the sum of the lowest RTT and tolerance value are considered. NetScaler implements the round robin method of global server load balancing among these considered sites. The sites that have RTT value greater than this value are not considered. The logic is applied for each LDNS and based on the LDNS, the sites that are considered might change. For example, a site that is considered for requests coming from LDNS1 might not be considered for requests coming from LDNS2. Minimum value: 0 Maximum value: 100

persistenceType Use source IP address based persistence for the virtual server. After the load balancing method selects a service for the first packet, the IP address received in response to the DNS query is used for subsequent requests from the same client.

Possible values: SOURCEIP, NONE

persistenceId The persistence ID for the GSLB virtual server. The ID is a positive integer that enables GSLB sites to identify the GSLB virtual server, and is required if source IP address based or spill over based persistence is enabled on the virtual server. Minimum value: 0 Maximum value: 65535

persistMask The optional IPv4 network mask applied to IPv4 addresses to establish source IP address based persistence. Default value: 0xFFFFFFFF

v6persistmasklen Number of bits to consider in an IPv6 source IP address when creating source IP address based persistence sessions. Default value: 128 Minimum value: 1 Maximum value: 128

timeout Idle time, in minutes, after which a persistence entry is cleared. Default value: 2 Minimum value: 2 Maximum value: 1440

EDR Send clients an empty DNS response when the GSLB virtual server is DOWN.

Possible values: ENABLED, DISABLED Default value: DISABLED

ECS If enabled, respond with EDNS Client Subnet (ECS) option in the response for a DNS query with ECS. The ECS address will be used for persistence and spillover persistence (if enabled) instead of the LDNS address. Persistence mask is ignored if ECS is enabled.

Possible values: ENABLED, DISABLED Default value: DISABLED

ecsAddrValidation Validate if ECS address is a private or unroutable address and in such cases, use the LDNS IP.

Possible values: ENABLED, DISABLED Default value: DISABLED

MIR Include multiple IP addresses in the DNS responses sent to clients.

Possible values: ENABLED, DISABLED Default value: DISABLED

disablePrimaryOnDown Continue to direct traffic to the backup chain even after the primary GSLB virtual server returns to the UP state. Used when spillover is configured for the virtual server.

Possible values: ENABLED, DISABLED Default value: DISABLED

dynamicWeight Specify if the appliance should consider the service count, service weights, or ignore both when using weight-based load balancing methods. The state of the number of services bound to the virtual server help the appliance to select the service.

Possible values: SERVICECOUNT, SERVICEWEIGHT, DISABLED Default value: DISABLED

state State of the GSLB virtual server.

Possible values: ENABLED, DISABLED Default value: ENABLED

considerEffectiveState If the primary state of all bound GSLB services is DOWN, consider the effective states of all the GSLB services, obtained through the Metrics Exchange Protocol (MEP), when determining the state of the GSLB virtual server. To consider the effective state, set the parameter to STATE_ONLY. To disregard the effective state, set the parameter to NONE.

The effective state of a GSLB service is the ability of the corresponding virtual server to serve traffic. The effective state of the load balancing virtual server, which is transferred to the GSLB service, is UP even if only one virtual server in the backup chain of virtual servers is in the UP state.

Possible values: NONE, STATE_ONLY Default value: NONE

comment Any comments that you might want to associate with the GSLB virtual server.

soMethod Type of threshold that, when exceeded, triggers spillover. Available settings function as follows:

  • CONNECTION - Spillover occurs when the number of client connections exceeds the threshold.
  • DYNAMICCONNECTION - Spillover occurs when the number of client connections at the GSLB virtual server exceeds the sum of the maximum client (Max Clients) settings for bound GSLB services. Do not specify a spillover threshold for this setting, because the threshold is implied by the Max Clients settings of the bound GSLB services.
  • BANDWIDTH - Spillover occurs when the bandwidth consumed by the GSLB virtual server’s incoming and outgoing traffic exceeds the threshold.
  • HEALTH - Spillover occurs when the percentage of weights of the GSLB services that are UP drops below the threshold. For example, if services gslbSvc1, gslbSvc2, and gslbSvc3 are bound to a virtual server, with weights 1, 2, and 3, and the spillover threshold is 50%, spillover occurs if gslbSvc1 and gslbSvc3 or gslbSvc2 and gslbSvc3 transition to DOWN.
  • NONE - Spillover does not occur.

Possible values: CONNECTION, DYNAMICCONNECTION, BANDWIDTH, HEALTH, NONE

soPersistence If spillover occurs, maintain source IP address based persistence for both primary and backup GSLB virtual servers.

Possible values: ENABLED, DISABLED Default value: DISABLED

soPersistenceTimeOut Timeout for spillover persistence, in minutes. Default value: 2 Minimum value: 2 Maximum value: 1440

soThreshold Threshold at which spillover occurs. Specify an integer for the CONNECTION spillover method, a bandwidth value in kilobits per second for the BANDWIDTH method (do not enter the units), or a percentage for the HEALTH method (do not enter the percentage symbol). Minimum value: 1 Maximum value: 4294967287

soBackupAction Action to be performed if spillover is to take effect, but no backup chain to spillover is usable or exists

Possible values: DROP, ACCEPT, REDIRECT

appflowLog Enable logging appflow flow information

Possible values: ENABLED, DISABLED Default value: ENABLED

toggleorder Configure this option to toggle order preference

Possible values: ASCENDING, DESCENDING Default value: ASCENDING

orderthreshold This option is used to to specify the threshold of minimum number of services to be UP in an order, for it to be considered in Lb decision. Default value: 0 Minimum value: 0 Maximum value: 100

Example

add gslb vserver gvip http

enable gslb vserver

Enables a global server load balancing (GSLB) virtual server that has been disabled. (A GSLB virtual server is enabled by default.)

Synopsis

enable gslb vserver @

Arguments

name Name of the GSLB virtual server to enable.

Example

enable gslb vserver gslb_vip To enable multiple gslb vservers use the following command: enable gslb vserver gslb_vip[1-3]

gslb-vserver