How to configure GSLB Active-Passive manually without WebUI wizard

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Description

In a nutshell big picture idea is: Each GSLB VS in both sites should be linked the GSLB Service of the desired Active GSLB Site.

Say you have GSLB Site A and Site B with one App called "citrite" you'd like to provide GSLB service.

 

LB VIP and Services elements In Site A are:

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GSLB VServer name citrite

GSLB VServer name citrite-backup

Service name citrite-on-SiteA (local site citrite app ip)

Service name citrite-on-SiteB (remote site citrite app ip)

 

LB VIP and Services elements In Site B are:

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GSLB VServer name citrite

GSLB VServer name citrite-backup

Service name citrite-on-SiteA (remote site citrite app ip)

Service name citrite-on-SiteB (local site citrite app ip)

 

If you want to make Site A the Active site, then the config should look like this:

 

Site A

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GSLB VServer citrite linked to citrite-on-SiteA (local)

GSLB VServer citrite-backup linked to citrite-on-SiteB (remote)

 

Site B

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GSLB VServer citrite linked to citrite-on-SiteA (remote)

GSLB VServer citrite-backup linked to citrite-on-SiteB (local)

 

Testing

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To test this config, you can disable the service in the desired Active GSLB site and query the ADNS Service directly from any PC that have DNS access to it with 

#nslookup -type=A <domain-name> <adns_ip_siteA>

#nslookup -type=A <domain-name> <adns_ip_siteB>

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Issue/Introduction

In some cases customer's security posture between GSLB sites won't allow RPC calls on port 3008 to traverse the network and only MEP traffic on port 3009 is allowed.

This condition will not allow GSLB config auto-sync, and the GSLB Wizard in the Web UI will fail to configure GSLB Active-Passive on the remote GSLB site.

The only solution then is to "go rouge" and configure GSLB manually on the remote site to act as Active-Active or Active-Passive. This article explain the process to create an Active-Passive GSLB deployment manually.

Additional Information

This procedure is not covered in our official KB because NetScaler Engineering assumed RPC over 3010 (unencrypted) or 3008 (encrypted) are open and functional between GSLB sites, and the Web UI wizard will push the desired config between GSLB sites automatically.