Adding a TCP Listener

Scenarios

You can add a TCP listener, if high reliability and high accuracy are required but slow speed is acceptable. TCP works well for applications such as file transfer, email sending and receiving, and remote login.

Notes and Constraints

If the front protocol is TCP, the backend protocol defaults to TCP and cannot be changed.

Procedure

1. Go to the load balancer list page.
2. On the displayed page, locate the load balancer and click its name.
3. Under Listeners, click Add Listener. Configure the parameters based on Table 1.

   Table 1 Parameters for configuring a TCP listener

   Parameter	Description
   Name	Specifies the listener name.
   Frontend Protocol	Specifies the protocol that will be used by the load balancer to receive requests from clients. Select TCP.
   Frontend Port	Specifies the port that will be used by the load balancer to receive requests from clients. The port number ranges from 1 to 65535.
   Access Control	Specifies how access to the listener is controlled. For details, see What Is Access Control? The following options are available: All IP addresses Blacklist Whitelist
   IP Address Group	Specifies the IP address group associated with a whitelist or blacklist. If there is no IP address group, create one first. For more information, see IP Address Group.
   Transfer Client IP Address	Specifies whether to transmit IP addresses of the clients to backend servers.
   Advanced Settings
   Idle Timeout (s)	Specifies the length of time for a connection to keep alive, in seconds. If no request is received within this period, the load balancer closes the connection and establishes a new one with the client when the next request arrives. The idle timeout duration ranges from 10 to 4000.
   Tag	Adds tags to the listener. Each tag is a key-value pair, and the tag key is unique.
   Description	Provides supplementary information about the listener. You can enter a maximum of 255 characters.

4. Click Next: Configure Request Routing Policy.
   1. You are advised to select an existing backend server group.
   2. You can also click Create new to create a backend server group.
      1. Configure the backend server group based on Table 2.
      2. Click Next: Add Backend Server. Add backend servers and configure health check for the backend server group.

         For details about how to add backend servers, see Backend Server Overview. For the parameters required for configuring a health check, see Table 3.

5. Click Next: Confirm.
6. Confirm the configurations and click Submit.