Managing the Load Balancer from the customer control panel

Summary of the main features and Load Balancer ownership through the customer control panel

Objective

The goal of this guide is to assist you when you first operate your Load Balancer by introducing the solution’s main features.

Requirements

Access to your customer control panel
Owning a Load Balancer

In practice

Managing your Load Balancer from the customer control panel

In order to manage your Load Balancer from the customer control panel, simply go to the Bare Metal Cloud section (1) then to the Load Balancer section (2) in the left-side menu. The service home page should appear:

On this home page, you will find the following information:

Element	Function
Status	Summary of your Load Balancer with IP, front-ends, operational farms and added servers
Usage	A summary of your LoadBalancer usage
Graphs	Here you will find the graphs in relation to your service and based on simultaneous connections or the number of requests per minute
Details	Your IPv4 and the fail-over IPs attached as well as the number of outbound IPv4 (details available by clicking on the ellipsis)
Configuration	This is where you can customize the name of your service (which will appear at the top in the left column) The cipher(s), which are customizable, as well as the data centre where your Load Balancer is located
Subscription	You will find below all the administrative details pertaining to your offer

To add a front-end or some server farms, simply click on their respective buttons. A context menu will then help you to configure each part of your service.

Managing your frontends

In order to add front-ends, all you need to do is go to the Frontends section and click on Add a front-end. You will then gain access to the following menu:

Details of a front-end component

Element	Function
Name	You can name your frontend if you wish; this can be very useful when you have several of them to identify them quickly
Protocol	You can choose between HTTP, HTTPS, TCP, SSL TCP (or TLS) and UDP
Port	Choose which listening port to use
Data centre	You can choose between your data centre or all of them to create your front-end
Default farm	If you have several configured farms, you can choose one by default for each front-end

You also have access to advanced settings:

Element	Function
Dedicated failover IP	List of failover IPs for remote servers
Restricting access to some IPs	List that allows restricting remote access to the Load Balancer, only in IPv4
HTTP redirection	Adding an HTTP redirect URL
HTTP header	Add an HTTP header here

Managing your server cluster

In order to add a server cluster, all you need to do is go to the Server clusters section and click on Add a server cluster. You will gain access to the same main features as for the frontend However, advanced options will be different:

Element	Function
Distribution mode	Choice between Round-robin, First, Last, Source or URI for your IP balancing
Session tracking	Session tracking can be done through Cookie or IP Source, to be determined here
Probe	Probe choice and activation

Managing your servers

Once your server farm has been created, you need to add servers to it. Below are the details for advanced options:

Element	Function
Name	You can name your server if you wish; this can be very useful when you have several of them to identify them quickly
IPv4 address	Adding the IP of the service that will be used as a server
Port	Server port
Backup server	Making sure to specify that this is a backup server
Use the farm’s availability probe	Choosing the probe that was approved during the creation of the farm
Encrypting requests with SSL	Encrypting requests with an SSL certificate
Cookie	Adding a customized session cookie
Certificate chain	Adding a certificate chain
Load balancing weight	Choosing the balancing weight for load distribution

Managing SSL Certificates

An SSL certificate can be added to the Load Balancer in the SSL Certificate section You will then have two possibilities: either ordering an SSL certificate through OVH or adding an external certificate.

OVH SSL certificate

To order an SSL certificate, simply go to the SSL Certificate section, then click on Order an SSL Certificate and let us guide you:

Element	Function
Types of certificate	Free (Let's Encrypt), Comodo DV or Comodo EV (find details here: https://www.ovh.com/asia/web-hosting/shared-ssl.xml)
Fully Qualified Domain Name (FQDN)	Affected domains

Adding an external SSL certificate

If you already have your own SSL certificate, you can add it directly:

Element	Function
Name	You can name your certificate if you wish; this can be very useful when you have several of them to identify them quickly
Private key	Field where a private key can be added to the service
Certificate	Certificate field
Chain	Field where a root certificate can be added if necessary

Going further

Discuss with our user community at https://community.ovh.com .

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