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Binding and Unbinding an EIP for a GaussDB Instance

Scenarios

You can bind an EIP to a GaussDB instance for public access and can unbind the EIP from an instance as required.

Precautions

  • To ensure that the DB instance can be accessed, the security group used by the DB instance must allow access to the database port. For example, if the database port is 1611, ensure that the security group allows access to the port 1611.
  • If a DB instance has already been bound with an EIP, you must unbind the EIP from the instance first before binding a new EIP to it.
  • An EIP can be bound to only one node IP address of a DB instance.
  1. Log in to the management console.
  2. Click in the upper left corner and select a region and project.
  3. Click in the upper left corner of the page and choose Databases > GaussDB.
  4. On the Instances page, click the name of the target instance to go to the Basic Information page.
  5. In the Connection Information area, locate the private IP address and click Bind in the Operation column.
  6. In the displayed dialog box, all available unbound EIPs are listed. Select the required EIP and click OK.

    If no available EIPs are displayed, click View EIP and obtain an EIP.

  7. In the Connection Information area, check the operation result in the EIP column of the private IP address list.

    To unbind the EIP from the instance, see Unbinding an EIP.

Viewing Traffic Information

  1. Bind an EIP to the instance.
  2. Click View Traffic to check the result.
  3. Check the curves of the following metrics:

    Uplink Bandwidth, Downlink Bandwidth, Outbound Bandwidth Usage, Downlink Traffic, and Uplink Traffic

  1. Log in to the management console.
  2. Click in the upper left corner and select a region and project.
  3. Click in the upper left corner of the page and choose Databases > GaussDB.
  4. On the Instances page, click the instance that has been bound with an EIP.
  5. In the Connection Information area, click Unbind in the Operation column of the relevant IP address.
  6. In the displayed dialog box, click Yes to unbind the EIP.
  7. In the Connection Information area, check the operation result in the EIP column of the private IP address list.

    To bind an EIP to the instance again, see Binding an EIP.

Parent Topic: Instance Management