Managing Load Balancer Rule Sets

On Private Cloud Appliance, you associate rule sets with listeners. The rules define actions to be applied to traffic passing through the listener.

A rule set is a named set of rules associated with a load balancer and applied to one or more listeners on that load balancer. To apply a rule set to a listener, you first create the rule set that contains the rules. Rules are objects that represent actions applied to traffic at a load balancer listener. The rule set becomes a part of the load balancer's configuration. You can specify the rule set to use when you create or update a listener for the load balancer.

You can apply the same rule set to several listeners on the same load balancer. Rule sets aren't shared between load balancers. To use the same set of rules on another load balancer, you must create a new, identical rule set under that load balancer.

You can include the following types of rules in a rule set:

• Access control rules, which restrict access to application resources based on the source of the request.

• Request header rules, which add or remove HTTP request headers.

• Response header rules, which add or remove HTTP response headers.