Enabling GTO service for managed appliances with the CMS

CMS with GTO supports dual-home (both internal and external interfaces are enabled) or single-home (only the internal interface is enabled) managed appliance.

For appliances in the same location, user sessions will increase relative to their user capacity. You must enter the recommended User Capacity to avoid the impact of the load score as the user count approaches capacity.

To enable GTO service for managed appliances with the CMS

1. On the CMS, navigate to Managed Appliances > Appliances > Add/Remove.

   

2. Under Appliance collection, click the + New or Delete icon to add or modify the managed appliances. For more details on to Add/Remove appliances, see section Add/Remove.

3. Click the appliance name from the CMS list.

   The client certificate warning, DNS name field, and Public IP field are only visible when CMS is enabled for GTO.

   

4. In the Edit Appliance Settings, select Enable Global Traffic Optimizer to participate in Global HA services.

5. Select DNS authoritative server to serve as a DNS authoritative server for all GTO services.

6. Select the check box Disable this appliance to disable users connecting to GTO service to this appliance. This appliance will remove from the GTO service and will not receive new user connections.

Existing user connections will continue on this appliance until the user connections terminates.

7. Modify the User Capacity, if the particular appliance needs to handle lower user count than it's default recommended user count.

   The User capacity default value depends on the SMA Appliance models:

   • SMA 6200 and 6210- The recommended maximum capacity is 2000 users.
   • SMA 7200 and 7210 - The recommended maximum capacity is 10000 users.
   • SMA 8200v Virtual Appliance- The recommended maximum capacity is 5000 users.

8. Click Save.