Editing a Network Load Balancer Backend Server

• Console
• CLI
• API

• 1. Open the navigation menu, click Networking, and then click Load balancers. Click Network load balancer. The Network load balancers page appears.
  2. Select the Compartment from the list. All network load balancers in that compartment are listed in tabular form.
  3. Select a State from the list to limit the network load balancers displayed to that state.
  4. Click the network load balancer containing backend server that you want to edit. The network load balancer's Details page appears.
  5. Click Backend sets under Resources. The Backend sets list appears. All backend sets are listed in tabular form.
  6. Click the backend set whose details you want to get. The backend set's Details page appears.
  7. Click Backends under Resources. The Backends list appears. All backend servers are listed in tabular form.
  8. Check the backend server that you want to edit in the list and click Edit. You can select multiple backend servers and update them all at the same time. You can also click the Actions menu () for the backend server you want to edit and select Edit. The Edit Backend dialog box appears.
  9. Edit any of the following:

     • Weight: Change the load balancing policy weight number assigned to the server. Backend servers with a higher weight receive a larger proportion of incoming traffic.

     • Drain: If you set the server's drain status to True, the load balancer stops forwarding new TCP connections and new non-sticky HTTP requests to this backend server. This setting lets administrators take the server out of rotation for maintenance purposes.

     • Offline: If you set the server's offline status to True, the load balance forwards no ingress traffic to this backend server.

     • Backup: If you set the server's backup status to True, the load balancer forwards ingress traffic to this backend server only when all other backend servers not marked as backup fail the health check policy. This configuration is useful for handling disaster recovery scenarios.

  10. Click Save changes.

• Use the oci nlb backend update command and required parameters to edit a network load balancer's backend server:

  oci nlb backend update --backend-name backend_name --backend-set-name backend_set_name --network-load-balancer-id network_load_balancer_ocid [OPTIONS]

  For a complete list of flags and variable options for CLI commands, see the Command Line Reference.

• Run the UpdateBackend operation to edit a backend server for a backend set for a network load balancer.