Viewing and Monitoring Your Load Balancers

Viewing the Properties of a Load Balancer

After you create a load balancer, you can verify its properties, policies, listeners, and server pools at any time.

Go to the Network tab in the Oracle Compute Cloud Service console.
Click Load Balancers in the left pane and select Load Balancers.

Any existing load balancers are displayed.

If you created a new load balancer recently and it is not appearing in the Load Balancers tab, click to refresh the list of load balancers.
Go to the load balancer that you want to view and click .

The Overview tab displays the current Information and General properties of the load balancer. See Configuring Load Balancer General Properties.

Updating a Load Balancer

To modify the details of a load balancer:

Go to the Network tab in the Oracle Compute Cloud Service console.
Click Load Balancers in the left pane and select the Load Balancers option.

The existing load balancers are displayed.

If you created a new load balancer recently and it is not appearing in the Load Balancers tab, click to refresh the list of load balancers.
Click next to the load balancer that you want to modify. Select the Update option.

The Overview page of the load balancer is displayed.
Based on the information that you want to modify, go to the General section and make the required changes. See Configuring Load Balancer General Properties.
Click Update.
A Update Load Balancer confirmation dialog box is displayed. Click Ok.

Note:

If your load balancer was created by Oracle PaaS Service Manager (PSM) then certain parameters of the resources (load balancer, listener, server pool, etc) cannot be modified after the resource creation.
If your load balancer is used by Oracle PaaS Service Manager (PSM) then it is recommended that you do not modify any of the load balancer parameters as the load balancer may become inaccessible.

Deleting a Load Balancer

To delete a load balancer:

Go to the Network tab in the Oracle Compute Cloud Service console.
Click Load Balancers in the left pane and select the Load Balancers option.

The existing load balancers are displayed.

If you created a new load balancer recently and it is not appearing in the Load Balancers tab, click to refresh the list of load balancers.
Click next to the load balancer that you want to delete and select the Delete option.
A Delete Load Balancer confirmation dialog box is displayed. Click Yes.

Note:

If your load balancer was created by Oracle PaaS Service Manager (PSM) then you cannot delete the load balancer directly. When the provisioned service is deleted, the load balancer will be deleted by Oracle PaaS Service Manager (PSM).