Managing Your Load Balancer Service via the Control Panel – Articles

Learn about the features and interface of the OVHcloud Load Balancer.

Requirements

access to the OVHcloud Control Panel
an OVHcloud Load Balancer service

Instructions

Managing your Load Balancer via the OVHcloud Control Panel

From the OVHcloud Control Panel:

Choose the Bare Metal Cloud tab in the top navigation bar.
Select Network from the left-hand navigation menu.
Click Load Balancer and select your load balancer service.

The main page for the service will then appear:

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On this page, you will see the following information:

Element	Purpose
Status	An overview of your Load Balancer with the IP, front-ends, functional clusters, and servers added
Use	A summary of how to use your Load Balancer.
Graphics	In this section, you will see the graphs linked to service, by concurrent connections or requests per minute.
Information	Your IPv4 address and the Additional IPs linked to them, as well as the number of outgoing IPv4s (see more details by clicking on the ellipses).
Configuration	Here, you can customize the name of your solution (which will appear at the top of the left-hand column) The cipher(s) are customizable, as well as the data center where your Load Balancer is based
Subscription	Here, you will see the admin details for your solution.

Managing front-ends

To add front-ends, simply go to the Front-ends tab, and click Add a front-end.

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The following form will appear:

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Details of front-end parts:

Element	Purpose
Name	If you want, you can choose a name for your front-end. This is very useful when you have several front-ends, so you can tell them apart quickly.
Protocol	You can choose between HTTP, HTTPS, TCP, and SSL TCP (or TLS).
Port	Choose the listening port you wish to use.
Datacenter	Choose between your data center or all data centers to create your front-end.
Default server cluster	If you have several clusters configured, you can choose one of them as a default for each front-end.

You can also access advanced settings. You can expand this menu by clicking the Show button:

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Element	Purpose
Dedicated failover IP	List of Failover (Additional) IPs for remote servers.
Restrict access to IPs	List for restricting remote access to the Load Balancer, for IPv4 only
HTTP Redirection	Add an HTTP redirection URL
HTTP Header	Add an HTTP header here

Managing clusters

To add a server cluster, go to the Server clusters tab, and click Add a server cluster. You will get the same main options as for the front-end. However, the advanced options are different:

Element	Purpose
Distribution mode	Choosing between Round-robin, First, Last, Source, or URI for your IP load balancing.
Track session	You can track sessions via Cookie or source IP, or not at all.
Probe	Choosing and activating a probe.

Managing your servers

Once you have created your server cluster, you just need to add servers to it. From the Server clusters tab, expand one of your server clusters and select the Add a server button.

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As with the front-ends and the clusters, you have to provide some information and have advanced settings available to you. You can expand the advanced settings by clicking the Show button. Details on all options are in the table below:

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Element	Purpose
Name	If you want, you can choose a name for your server. This is very useful when you have several servers, so you can tell them apart quickly.
IPv4 address	Adding the IP address of the service that will act as a server.
Port	Server port.
Backup server	Selecting which server is a backup server.
Use the server cluster's probe	Choosing the probe that was validated when you created the cluster.
Encrypt requests with SSL	Encrypting requests with an SSL certificate.
Cookie	Add a customized session cookie.
Certificate chain	Add a certificate chain.
Balancing weight	Choose the balancing load for the load balancer
PROXY Protocol version	Choose a PROXY protocol version.

Managing SSL certificates

You can add an SSL certificate to the Load Balancer in the SSL Certificates tab. You have two options: you can order an SSL certificate from OVHcloud or add an external certificate.

OVHcloud SSL certificate

To order an SSL certificate, simply go to the SSL Certificate section, then click Order an SSL certificate and browse the options available:

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Element	Purpose
Certificate type	Free (Let's Encrypt) or Comodo DV
Fully Qualified Domain Name (FQDN)	Domain(s) concerned

Adding an external SSL certificate

To add your own SSL certificate, from the SSL Certificates tab, click Add an SSL certificate and browse the options available:

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Element	Purpose
Name	If you want, you can choose a name for your certificate. This is very useful when you have several certificates, so you can tell them apart quickly.
Private key	Field for entering the private key to add to the service.
Certificate	Field for adding the certificate.
Chain	Field for adding the root certificate, if required.

Going further

For more information and tutorials, please see our other OVHcloud Load Balancer guides or explore the guides for other OVHcloud products and services.

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