Deploy Visibility Fabric with Gateway Load Balancer

You can deploy GigaVUE V Series Node across the AWS accounts with Gateway Load Balancing in GigaVUE‑FM.

To deploy,

1. In the Monitoring Domain Configuration page, select VPC Traffic Mirroring or Customer Orchestrated Source or Inline as the Traffic Acquisition method. For details, refer to Create a Monitoring Domain.
2. Enter the Monitoring Domain Name and the Connection Name as mentioned in the user data provided during the template launch in AWS. For details, refer to Configure a Gateway Load Balancer in AWS.
   
3. For the Use Load Balancer field, select Yes.
4. Select No for the Use FM to Launch Fabric option. This allows you to deploy the fabric components using Third Party Orchestration.

   

5. Select Save. The Monitoring Domain is created successfully and you are navigated to the AWS Fabric Launch Configuration page.
6. In the AWS Fabric Launch Configuration page, perform the following for the load balancer.
   1. Select the VPC from the drop down list.
   2. Select the Load Balancer configured in AWS.
   3. Select the Auto Scaling Group configured in AWS.
7. Select Save to save the configuration.

Once the Monitoring Domain is successfully configured, edit the Desire capacity value for the Auto Scaling Group in AWS. For details, refer to Configure a Gateway Load Balancer in AWS.

To monitor the traffic, you must create a Monitoring Session. For more information on creating a Monitoring Session, see Configure Monitoring Session.

For more information on the best practices and architectures, see the following links:

• Getting started with Gateway Load Balancers
• Scaling network traffic inspection using AWS Gateway Load Balancer