Table Of Contents

Configuring Resources

Organizing Your GSS Network

Creating and Modifying Locations and Regions

Creating Regions

Modifying Regions

Creating Locations

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

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This chapter describes how to establish global server load-balancing resources on your GSS network.

This chapter contains the following major sections:

•Organizing Your GSS Network

•Creating and Modifying Locations and Regions

•Creating and Modifying Owners

•Grouping GSS Resources by Location, Region, and Owner

•Where to Go Next

Organizing Your GSS Network

The primary GSSM provides you the following tools to group and organize resources on your GSS network:

•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 an established GSS location. Using a location to manage your answers can simplify the process to suspend or activate answers in a particular area of your network (see Chapter 6, Configuring Answers and Answer Groups). For example, you can shut down one or more data centers to perform software upgrades or regular maintenance.

Creating and Modifying Locations and Regions

Use the following procedures to set up regions and locations on your GSS network. We recommend that you create regions before you create locations because you associate a region with a location when creating the location.

This section includes the following procedures:

•Creating Regions

•Modifying Regions

•Creating Locations

•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 2-1).

Figure 2-1 Regions List Page

3. Click the Create Regions icon. The Creating New Region details page appears (Figure 2-2).

Figure 2-2 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 and return to the Region list page. Your new region 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 that you want to modify. The Modifying Region details page appears (Figure 2-3).

Figure 2-3 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 and return to the Regions list page.

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 2-4).

Figure 2-4 Locations List Page

3. Click the Create Location icon. The Creating New Location details page appears (Figure 2-5).

Figure 2-5 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 the region and location.

6. If performing network proximity, click the Zone drop-down list and associate a zone with the location. There should be a logical connection between the zone and the location.

7. In the Comments field, enter descriptive information or important notes regarding the new region or location.

8. Click Submit to save your new location and 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 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 that you want to modify. The Modifying Location details page appears (Figure 2-6).

Figure 2-6 Modifying Location Details Page

4. In the Name field, change the name of the location, if desired.

5. If you 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. If performing network proximity, click the Zone drop-down list and associate a zone with the location. There should be a logical connection between the zone and the location.

7. In the Comments field, enter or modify the descriptive information or notes regarding the location.

8. Click Submit to save the changes to your location and return to the Locations list page.

Deleting Locations and Regions

Before deleting a region or location, ensure that you know about the dependencies 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.

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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 the Global Site Selector Administration Guide for details.

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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 want 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 to confirm your decision. You return to the list page.

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.

As with locations, owner designations are used for the bulk management of GSS resources. Using a GSS owner to manage your answer group can simplify the process to suspend or activate all related answers.

For information on using owners to manage your GSS network, see the following chapters and sections:

•Refer to the Suspending or Reactivating All Answers in an Answer Group Associated with an Owner section in Chapter 6, Configuring Answers and Answer Groups

•Refer to the Suspending or Reactivating All DNS Rules Belonging to an Owner section in Chapter 7, Building and Modifying DNS Rules

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 2-7).

Figure 2-7 Owners List Page

3. Click the Create Owner icon. The Creating New Owner details page appears (Figure 2-8).

Figure 2-8 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 and 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 that you want to modify. The Modifying Owner details page appears (Figure 2-9).

Figure 2-9 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 and return to the Owners list page.

Deleting Owners

Before you attempt to delete an owner, be sure that you know the dependencies of that resource. 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.

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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 the Global Site Selector Administration Guide for details.

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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 that 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 to confirm your decision. You return to the Owners list page.

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 2-1 indicates which GSS resources can be grouped by locations, regions, and owners.

Table 2-1 GSS Network Groupings

GSS Network Resource	Grouped By	Grouped Using
GSS	Location	Global Site Selector details page
Locations	Region	Locations details page
Region	—	—
Owner	—	—
DNS rules	Owner	DNS Rule Builder DNS Rule Wizard
Source address lists	Owner	Source Address Lists details page
Domain lists	Owner	Domain Lists details page
Answer group	Owner	Answer Group details page
Answer	Location	Answer details page

Where to Go Next

Chapter 3, Configuring Source Address Lists describes the creation of source address lists. Source address lists are collections of IP addresses or address blocks for known client DNS proxies (or D-proxies).