Routing method in Traffic Manager for active/passive failover: traffic goes to whichever healthy endpoint has the highest priority.
Also called routing.
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Terms in this definition
- Geographic
A Traffic Manager routing method that picks the endpoint according to where the user is located geographically.
- Traffic Manager
A global traffic router working purely through DNS, with methods such as priority, weighted, performance and geographic, for any protocol. HTTP traffic never passes through it and it caches no content.
Related terms
- AllowAzureLoadBalancerInBound
Built-in NSG inbound rule at priority 65001 that admits traffic coming from Azure Load Balancer, health probes included.
- AllowInternetOutBound
Built-in NSG outbound rule at priority 65001 that lets traffic reach the internet. A deny rule with a smaller priority number overrides it.
- AllowVNetInBound
Built-in NSG inbound rule at priority 65000 that admits anything from the VirtualNetwork service tag, which also covers peered VNets.
- AllowVnetOutBound
Built-in NSG outbound rule at priority 65000 that lets VMs open connections towards their own VNet and peered VNets. The NSG at the destination still has to permit the port.
- Azure Firewall rule collection
Set of rules of a single type (DNAT, network or application) that share one action and one priority and sit within a rule collection group. Priority only decides order among collections of the same rule type.
- Baseline profile
Applies to every bit of Internet Access traffic, remote networks included, without needing a Conditional Access policy, and it still runs even if another profile matches first. This Global Secure Access security profile has priority 65000, the lowest available.
- Device limit restriction
An enrolment restriction setting the maximum number of devices, between 1 and 15, each user can enrol. As many as 25 of these policies can exist, applied in priority order.
- Label group
Sensitivity labels in the modern scheme sit inside these containers, which carry nothing but a name, description, colour and priority. You can't publish one by itself, and they take over the job parent labels used to do.