Table Of Contents
Configuring Resources
Organizing Your GSS Network
Creating and Modifying Locations and Regions
Creating Regions
Creating Locations
Modifying Regions
Modifying Locations
Deleting Locations and Regions
Creating and Modifying Owners
Creating Owners
Modifying Owners
Deleting Owners
Grouping GSS Resources by Location, Region, and Owner
Where to Go Next
Configuring Resources
This chapter describes what you need to establish global server load-balancing resources. Before you configure request routing, make sure that you have configured your hardware devices as described in Chapter 2, Setting Up Your GSS. You must have a primary GSSM configured and enabled before you can configure request routing and server load balancing on the GSS network. Ideally, you have a standby GSSM configured as well.
If you will be deploying GSSs in addition to your primary GSSM and standby GSSM, these devices will identify themselves to the primary GSSM and appear on the GSSM GUI when you access the Resources tab and click the Global Site Selectors navigation link.
This chapter contains the following major sections:
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Organizing Your GSS Network
•Creating and Modifying Locations and Regions
•Creating and Modifying Owners
•Grouping GSS Resources by Location, Region, and Owner
Organizing Your GSS Network
The primary GSSM provides you with a number of tools that allow you to group and organize resources on your GSS network. These include:
•Locations—Logical groupings for GSS resources that correspond to geographical entities such as a city, data center, or content site
•Regions—Higher-level geographical groupings that contain one or more locations
•Owners—Groupings that correspond to business or organizational relationships; for example, customers, internal departments, and IT personnel
Keep in mind that it is not a requirement that regions and locations correspond to actual geographical sites. They are simply organizing concepts that allow you to group GSS resources and exist in a one (region) to many (locations) relationship.
In addition to providing an organizational scheme for your GSS network, locations can also be used for bulk management of GSS resources, such as answers. Answers can be grouped and managed according to a GSS location that has been established and with which answers have been associated. Using a location to manage your answers makes it easier for you to quickly suspend or activate answers in a particular area of your network, for example, shutting down one or more data centers for the purposes of software upgrades or regular maintenance. Refer to Chapter 7, Configuring Answers and Answer Groups, for more information.
Creating and Modifying Locations and Regions
The process for creating and maintaining locations and regions is essentially identical, except that in addition to their other configuration information, locations are associated with regions in a many-to-one relationship. Use the following procedures to set up regions and locations on your GSS network.
Note We recommend that you create regions before you create locations.
This section includes the following procedures:
•Creating Regions
•Creating Locations
•Modifying Regions
•Modifying Locations
•Deleting Locations and Regions
Creating Regions
To create a region:
1. From the primary GSSM GUI, click the Resources tab.
2. Click the Regions navigation link. The Regions list page appears (Figure 3-1).
Figure 3-1 Regions List Page
3. Click the Create Regions icon. The Creating New Region details page appears (Figure 3-2).
Figure 3-2 Creating New Region Details Page
4. In the Name field, enter the name for your new region.
5. In the Comments field, enter descriptive information or important notes regarding the new region.
6. Click Submit to save changes to your new region. You return to the Region list page. Your new region appears in the list and can be used to help you organize other GSS resources.
Creating Locations
To create a location:
1. From the primary GSSM GUI, click the Resources tab.
2. Click the Locations navigation link. The Locations list page appears (Figure 3-3).
Figure 3-3 Locations List Page
3. Click the Create Location icon. The Creating New Location details page appears (Figure 3-4).
Figure 3-4 Creating New Location Details Page
4. In the Name field, enter the name for your new location.
5. Click the Region drop-down list and choose a region with which the location will be associated. There should be a logical connection between region and location.
6. In the Comments field, enter descriptive information or important notes regarding the new region or location.
7. Click Submit to save your new location. You return to the Locations list page. Your new location appears in the list and can be used to help you organize other GSS resources.
Modifying Regions
To modify a GSS region:
1. From the primary GSSM GUI, click the Resources tab.
2. Click the Regions navigation link. The Regions list page appears.
3. From the Regions list, click the Modify Region icon located to the left of the list you want to modify. The Modifying Region details page appears (Figure 3-5).
Figure 3-5 Modifying Region Details Page
4. In the Name field, change the name of the region, if desired.
5. In the Comments field, enter or modify the descriptive information or notes regarding the region.
6. Click Submit to save the changes to your region. You return to the Regions list page.
Modifying Locations
To modify a GSS location:
1. From the primary GSSM GUI, click the Resources tab.
2. Click the Locations navigation link. The Locations list page appears.
3. From the Locations list, click the Modify Location icon located to the left of the list you want to modify. The Modifying Location details page appears (Figure 3-6).
Figure 3-6 Modifying Location Details Page
4. In the Name field, change the name of the location, if desired.
5. If wish to move the location to a new region, click the Region drop-down list and select a new region with which the location will be associated.
6. In the Comments field, enter or modify the descriptive information or notes regarding the location.
7. Click Submit to save the changes to your location. You return to the Locations list page.
Deleting Locations and Regions
Before deleting a region or location, be sure that you know what dependencies are associated with a resource. For example, regions that have locations associated with them cannot be deleted. In addition, answers associated with locations that are deleted are automatically associated with the "Unspecified" location.
Caution Deletions of any kind cannot be undone in the primary GSSM. If you might want to use the deleted data at a later point in time, we recommend performing a database backup of your primary GSSM. Refer to
Chapter 9, GSS Administration and Troubleshooting for details.
To delete regions and locations:
1. From the primary GSSM GUI, click the Resources tab.
2. Click either the Locations or Regions navigation link, depending on what type of resource you intend to delete. The list page appears.
3. Click the Modify icon for the location or region that you want to delete. The details page appears, displaying configuration information for that resource.
4. Click the Delete icon in the upper right corner of the page. The GSS software prompts you to confirm your decision to delete the Region or Location.
5. Click OK. You return to the list page with the Region or Location removed.
If an error appears informing you that a GSS resource is still linked to the region or location you want to delete, disassociate that resource and then attempt to delete the grouping again.
Creating and Modifying Owners
Owners are logical groupings for GSS network resources that correspond to business or organizational structures. For example, an owner might be a hosting customer, an internal department such as human resources, or an IT staff resource.
Owners are created and managed separately from either GSS or GSSM logins, and there is no necessary connection between the two. As with locations, owner designations can be used for bulk management of GSS resources. Using a GSS owner to manage your answer groups makes it easier for you to quickly suspend or activate related answers.
For information on using owners to manage your GSS network, see the following chapters and sections:
•Chapter 7, Configuring Answers and Answer Groups, the Suspending or Reactivating All Answers in an Answer Group Associated with an Owner section
•Chapter 8, Building and Modifying DNS Rules, the Suspending or Reactivating All DNS Rules Belonging to an Owner section
Creating Owners
To create an owner:
1. From the primary GSSM GUI, click the Resources tab.
2. Click the Owners navigation link. The Owners list page appears displaying a list of all configured owners on your GSS network and providing an overview of the resources assigned to each owner (Figure 3-7).
Figure 3-7 Owners List Page
3. Click the Create Owner icon. The Creating New Owner details page appears (Figure 3-8).
Figure 3-8 Creating New Owner Details Page
4. In the Name field, enter the contact name for your new Owner.
5. In the Comments field, enter other descriptive or contact information for the new owner.
6. Click Submit to save the new Owner. You return to the Owners list page. Your new owner is listed and can now be used to help you organize other GSS resources.
Modifying Owners
To modify an owner:
1. From the primary GSSM GUI, click the Resources tab.
2. Click the Owners navigation link. The Owners list page appears.
3. From the Owners list, click the Modify Owner icon located to the left of the list you want to modify. The Modifying Owner details page appears (Figure 3-9).
Figure 3-9 Modifying Owner Details Page
4. In the Name field, enter a new name for your new owner, if desired.
5. In the Comments field, enter or modify the descriptive information or notes regarding the owner.
6. Click Submit to save the changes to the owner. You return to the Owners list page.
Deleting Owners
Before you attempt to delete an owner, be sure that you know what dependencies that resource has. For example, answer groups, DNS rules, and domain lists associated with an owner will, if that owner is deleted, automatically be associated with the "System" owner account.
Caution Deletions of any kind cannot be undone in the primary GSSM. If you might want to use the deleted data at a later point in time, we recommend performing a database backup of your GSSM. Refer to
Chapter 9, GSS Administration and Troubleshooting for details.
To delete an owner:
1. From the primary GSSM GUI, click the Resources tab.
2. Click the Owners navigation link. The Owners list page appears.
3. From the Owners list, click the Modify Owner icon located to the left of the list you want to delete. The Modifying Owner details page appears.
4. Click the Delete icon in the upper right corner of the page. The GSS software prompts you to confirm your decision to delete the owner.
5. Click OK. You return to the Owners list screen with the owner removed.
Grouping GSS Resources by Location, Region, and Owner
After you create your locations, regions, and owners, you can begin to use these tools to help organize your GSS resources. To associate a particular resource with a location, region, or owner, edit the properties of that resource and then choose the location, region, or owner from the drop-down list provided. Table 3-1 indicates which GSS resources can be grouped by locations, regions, and owners.
Table 3-1 GSS Network Groupings
GSS Network Resource
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Grouped By
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Grouped Using
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GSS
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Location
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Global Site Selector details page
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Locations
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Region
|
Locations details page
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Region
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—
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Owner
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—
|
—
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DNS rules
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Owner
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DNS Rule Builder
DNS Rule Wizard
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Source address lists
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Owner
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Source Address Lists details page
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Domain lists
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Owner
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Domain Lists details page
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Answer group
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Owner
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Answer Group details page
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Answer
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Location
|
Answer details page
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Where to Go Next
Chapter 4, Configuring Source Address Lists describes the creation of source address lists, collections of IP addresses or address blocks for known client DNS proxies (or D-proxies).
