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Creating an RTTM Region in the API requires specific syntax depending on whether you are using REST or SOAP. Use this table to find the syntax for your command.

REST Syntax

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/REST/RTTMRegion/ POST — Creates a new Real Time Traffic Management (RTTM) service region.

HTTP Action — POST

URI — https://api.dynect.net/REST/RTTMRegion/<zone>/<fqdn>/

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string region_code — Required. Name of the region.
Valid values:
US West
US Central
US East
EU West
EU Central
EU East
Asia
global
string autopopulate — If set to Y, this region will automatically be filled in from the global pool, and any other options passed in for this region will be ignored. Valid values: Y, N
string ep — Eligibility Pool – How many records will make it into the eligibility pool. The addresses that get chosen will be those that respond the fastest.
string apmc — The minimum amount of IPs that must be in the up state, otherwise the region will be in failover.
string epmc — The minimum amount of IPs that must be populated in the Eligibility Pool (EP), otherwise the region will be in failover.
string serve_count — How many records will be returned in each DNS response
string failover_mode — How the region should failover. Defaults to global.
Valid values:
ip – Failover to a particular IP
cname – Failover to a particular CNAME
region – Failover to a particular region
global – Failover to the global IP address pool
string failover_data — Dependent upon failover_mode:
ip – If failover_mode is ip, this should be an IPv4 address
cname – If failover_mode is cname, this should be a CNAME
region – If failover_mode is region, this should be the target region code when this region fails over
global – If failover_mode is global, this should be empty or omitted
array pool — Required. The IP Pool list for this region.

string address — Required. The IPv4 address or FQDN of this Node IP.
string label — A descriptive string describing this IP
string weight — A number from 1-15 describing how often this record should be served. Higher means more
string serve_mode — Sets the behavior of this particular record.
Valid values:
always – Always serve this IP address
obey – Serve this address based upon its monitoring status
remove – Serve this address based upon its monitoring status. However, if it goes down, don’t automatically bring it back up when monitoring reports it up.
no – Never serve this IP address

Response — Click for More Info

integer task_id – The number assigned to the task to create a RTTM Region.
string autopopulate — If set to Y, this region will automatically be filled in from the global pool, and any other options passed in for this region will be ignored. Valid values: Y, N
string ep — Eligibility Pool – How many records will make it into the eligibility pool. The addresses that get chosen will be those that respond the fastest.
string serve_count — How many records will be returned in each DNS response
string failover_mode — How the region should failover. Defaults to global.
Valid values:
ip – Failover to a particular IP
cname – Failover to a particular CNAME
region – Failover to a particular region
global – Failover to the global IP address pool
string failover_data — Dependent upon failover_mode:
ip – If failover_mode is ip, this should be an IPv4 address
cname – If failover_mode is cname, this should be a CNAME
region – If failover_mode is region, this should be the target region code when this region fails over
global – If failover_mode is global, this should be empty or omitted
string apmc — The minimum amount of IPs that must be in the up state, otherwise the region will be in failover.
string epmc — The minimum amount of IPs that must be populated in the Eligibility Pool (EP), otherwise the region will be in failover.
string region_code — Name of the region.
Valid values:US West, US Central, US East, EU West, EU Central, EU East, Asia, global
array pool — The IP Pool list for this region

string address — The IPv4 address or FQDN of this Node IP
string label — A descriptive string describing this IP
string weight — A number from 1-15 describing how often this record should be served. Higher means more
string serve_mode — Sets the behavior of this particular record.
Valid values:
always – Always serve this IP address
obey – Serve this address based upon its monitoring status
remove – Serve this address based upon its monitoring status. However, if it goes down, don’t automatically bring it back up when monitoring reports it up.
no – Never serve this IP address
string status — The current state of the Node IP.
Valid values:
unk – The state of the IP address is not yet known
up – The IP address is up
down – The IP address is down
array log — Recent monitoring logs for this IP.

string status — The state of the Node IP at the time of the log entry.
Valid values:
unk – The state of the IP address is not yet known
up – The IP address is up
down – The IP address is down
string message — If status is ‘down’, an error message explaining the failure
string time — The time or probe interval when this log entry was generated.
string site_code — The airport code of the monitoring site that generated this log entry

string status — The current state of the region.
Valid values:
unk – The service state is not yet known
ok – There are no problems with the service
trouble – One or more node_ips are reporting down
failover – The number of okay node_ips has fallen below the acmp. The service has failed over.

SOAP Syntax

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CreateRTTMRegion — Creates a new region pool in an existing Real Time Traffic Management(RTTM) service.

Arguments — Click for More Info

string zone — Required. Name of the zone where the RTTM service exists.
string fqdn — Required. Name of the node where the RTTM service exists.
string region_code — Required. Name of the region.
Valid values:US West, US Central, US East, EU West, EU Central, EU East, Asia, global
string autopopulate — If set to Y, this region will automatically be filled in from the global pool, and any other options passed in for this region will be ignored. Valid values: Y, N
string ep — Eligibility Pool – How many records will make it into the eligibility pool. The addresses that get chosen will be those that respond the fastest.
string serve_count — How many records will be returned in each DNS response
string failover_mode — How the region should failover. Defaults to global.
Valid values:
ip – Failover to a particular IP
cname – Failover to a particular CNAME
region – Failover to a particular region
global – Failover to the global IP address pool
string failover_data — Dependent upon failover_mode:
ip – If failover_mode is ip, this should be an IPv4 address
cname – If failover_mode is cname, this should be a CNAME
region – If failover_mode is region, this should be the target region code when this region fails over
global – If failover_mode is global, this should be empty or omitted
string apmc — The minimum amount of IPs that must be in the up state, otherwise the region will be in failover.
string epmc — The minimum amount of IPs that must be populated in the Eligibility Pool (EP), otherwise the region will be in failover.
array pool — Required. The IP Pool list for this region

string address — Required. The IPv4 address or FQDN of this Node IP
string label — A descriptive string describing this IP
string weight — A number from 1-15 describing how often this record should be served. Higher means more
string serve_mode — Sets the behavior of this particular record.
Valid values:
always – Always serve this IP address
obey – Serve this address based upon its monitoring status
remove – Serve this address based upon its monitoring status. However, if it goes down, don’t automatically bring it back up when monitoring reports it up.
no – Never serve this IP address

string token — Required. The session identifier.

Response — Click for More Info

integer task_id – The number assigned to the task to create a RTTM Region.
hash data

string autopopulate — If set to Y, this region will automatically be filled in from the global pool, and any other options passed in for this region will be ignored. Valid values: Y, N
string ep — Eligibility Pool – How many records will make it into the eligibility pool. The addresses that get chosen will be those that respond the fastest.
string serve_count — How many records will be returned in each DNS response
string failover_mode — How the region should failover. Defaults to global.
Valid values:
ip – Failover to a particular IP
cname – Failover to a particular CNAME
region – Failover to a particular region
global – Failover to the global IP address pool
string failover_data — Dependent upon failover_mode:
ip – If failover_mode is ip, this should be an IPv4 address
cname – If failover_mode is cname, this should be a CNAME
region – If failover_mode is region, this should be the target region code when this region fails over
global – If failover_mode is global, this should be empty or omitted
string apmc — The minimum amount of IPs that must be in the up state, otherwise the region will be in failover.
string epmc — The minimum amount of IPs that must be populated in the Eligibility Pool (EP), otherwise the region will be in failover.
string region_code — Name of the region.
Valid values:US West, US Central, US East, EU West, EU Central, EU East, Asia, global
array pool — The IP Pool list for this region

string address — The IPv4 address or FQDN of this Node IP
string label — A descriptive string describing this IP
string weight — A number from 1-15 describing how often this record should be served. Higher means more
string serve_mode — Sets the behavior of this particular record.
Valid values:
always – Always serve this IP address
obey – Serve this address based upon its monitoring status
remove – Serve this address based upon its monitoring status. However, if it goes down, don’t automatically bring it back up when monitoring reports it up.
no – Never serve this IP address
string status — The current state of the Node IP.
Valid values:
unk – The state of the IP address is not yet known
up – The IP address is up
down – The IP address is down
array log — Recent monitoring logs for this IP.

string status — The state of the Node IP at the time of the log entry.
Valid values:
unk – The state of the IP address is not yet known
up – The IP address is up
down – The IP address is down
string message — If status is ‘down’, an error message explaining the failure
string time — The time or probe interval when this log entry was generated.
string site_code — The airport code of the monitoring site that generated this log entry

string status — The current state of the region.
Valid values:
unk – The service state is not yet known
ok – There are no problems with the service
trouble – One or more node_ips are reporting down
failover – The number of okay node_ips has fallen below the acmp. The service has failed over.

Example Request — Click for More Info

{
	'zone' => 'example.com',
	'fqdn' => 'somehost.example.com',
	'region_code' => 'US East'
	'serve_mode' => 'obey',
		'region_code' => 'global',
		'ep' => 2,
		'failover_mode' => 'ip',
		'failover_data' => '127.0.0.1',
		'epmc' => 1,
		'apmc' => 1,
		'serve_count' => 1,
		'pool' => [
			{
				'address' => '1.2.3.4',
				'serve_mode' => 'obey',
			},
			{
				'address' => '5.6.7.8',
				'serve_mode' => 'obey',
			},
		],
	'token' => 'asdlj34ot879834cdzjklfK',
}

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