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Server Load Balancer:CreateListener

Last Updated:Dec 10, 2025

Creates a listener for a Gateway Load Balancer (GWLB) instance.

Operation description

The CreateListener operation is asynchronous. After you send a request, the system returns a request ID. The listener is created in the background. You can call the GetListenerAttribute operation to query the creation status of the listener:

  • If a listener is in the Provisioning state, the listener is being created.

  • If a listener is in the Running state, the listener is created.

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RAM authorization

The table below describes the authorization required to call this API. You can define it in a Resource Access Management (RAM) policy. The table's columns are detailed below:

  • Action: The actions can be used in the Action element of RAM permission policy statements to grant permissions to perform the operation.

  • API: The API that you can call to perform the action.

  • Access level: The predefined level of access granted for each API. Valid values: create, list, get, update, and delete.

  • Resource type: The type of the resource that supports authorization to perform the action. It indicates if the action supports resource-level permission. The specified resource must be compatible with the action. Otherwise, the policy will be ineffective.

    • For APIs with resource-level permissions, required resource types are marked with an asterisk (*). Specify the corresponding Alibaba Cloud Resource Name (ARN) in the Resource element of the policy.

    • For APIs without resource-level permissions, it is shown as All Resources. Use an asterisk (*) in the Resource element of the policy.

  • Condition key: The condition keys defined by the service. The key allows for granular control, applying to either actions alone or actions associated with specific resources. In addition to service-specific condition keys, Alibaba Cloud provides a set of common condition keys applicable across all RAM-supported services.

  • Dependent action: The dependent actions required to run the action. To complete the action, the RAM user or the RAM role must have the permissions to perform all dependent actions.

Action

Access level

Resource type

Condition key

Dependent action

gwlb:CreateListener

create

*LoadBalancer

acs:gwlb:{#regionId}:{#accountId}:loadbalancer/{#LoadbalancerId}

*ServerGroup

acs:gwlb:{#regionId}:{#accountId}:servergroup/{#ServerGroupId}

*Listener

acs:gwlb:{#regionId}:{#accountId}:listener/*

None None

Request parameters

Parameter

Type

Required

Description

Example

LoadBalancerId

string

Yes

The ID of the GWLB instance.

gwlb-te609d6696632f7*****

ListenerDescription

string

No

The description of the listener.

The description must be 2 to 256 characters in length. It can contain Chinese characters, letters, digits, commas (,), periods (.), semicolons (;), forward slashes (/), at signs (@), underscores (_), and hyphens (-).

listener-description

ServerGroupId

string

Yes

The server group ID.

sgp-ckh01px70dszof****

TcpIdleTimeout

integer

No

The timeout period of an idle TCP connection.

Valid values: 60 to 6000 seconds.

Default value: 350 seconds.

350

DryRun

boolean

No

Specifies whether to perform a dry run. Valid values:

  • true: performs a dry run. The system checks the required parameters, the request format, and the service limits. If the request fails the dry run, an error message is returned. If the request passes the dry run, the DryRunOperation error code is returned.

  • false (default): sends the request. If the request passes the check, an HTTP 2xx status code is returned and the operation is performed.

false

ClientToken

string

No

The client token that is used to ensure the idempotence of the request.

You can use the client to generate a token, but you must make sure that the token is unique among different requests. The token can contain only ASCII characters.

Note

If you do not specify this parameter, the system automatically uses the RequestId of the request as the ClientToken. The RequestId may be different for each request.

123e4567-e89b-12d3-a456-42665544****

Tag

array<object>

No

The tags. You can specify up to 20 tags in each call.

object

No

The tag.

Key

string

No

The tag key. If you specify this parameter, you cannot leave it empty. The tag key can be up to 128 characters in length and cannot start with aliyun or acs:. It cannot contain http:// or https://.

testKey

Value

string

No

The tag value. The tag value can be up to 256 characters in length and cannot contain http:// or https://.

testValue

Response elements

Element

Type

Description

Example

object

The returned data.

ListenerId

string

The listener ID.

lsn-wi3c0v30ivysrg****

RequestId

string

The request ID.

A045E652-D298-5E70-A978-7247135336FB

Examples

Success response

JSON format

{
  "ListenerId": "lsn-wi3c0v30ivysrg****",
  "RequestId": "A045E652-D298-5E70-A978-7247135336FB"
}

Error codes

HTTP status code

Error code

Error message

Description

400 IncorrectBusinessStatus.LoadBalancer The business status of %s [%s] is incorrect. Resource %s with business state %s does not support current operation
400 MissingParam.TagKey The param of TagKey is missing. The parameter of tag key is missing.
400 MissingParam.TagValue The param of TagValue is missing. The parameter of tag value is missing.
400 OperationDenied.TooManyListeners The operation is not allowed because of TooManyListener. The number of listeners of the load balancer instance exceeds the limit. The operation is denied.
400 IncorrectStatus.LoadBalancer The status of %s [%s] is incorrect. Resource %s current state %s does not support operation
400 ResourceInUse.IP The specified resource of IP is in use.
400 Mismatch.VpcId The %s is mismatched for %s and %s. The VPC IDs of the two resources do not match.
400 IncorrectStatus.ServerGroup The status of %s [%s] is incorrect. The status of %s [%s] is incorrect.
400 DuplicatedParam.TagKey The param of %s is duplicated. The parameter of tag key is duplicated.
400 IllegalParam.TagKey The param of %s is illegal.
400 IllegalParam.TagValue The param of %s is illegal. The parameter of tag value is illegal.
400 OperationDenied.TcpIdleTimeoutConflictWithScheduler The TCP idle timeout of listener must be default value when the scheduling algorithm of server group is not 5TCH. The TCP idle timeout of listener must be default value when the scheduling algorithm of server group is not 5TCH.
404 ResourceNotFound.LoadBalancer The specified resource of %s is not found. The specified resource of .LoadBalancer is not found.
404 ResourceNotFound.ServerGroup The specified resource of %s is not found. The specified server group resource does not exist.

See Error Codes for a complete list.

Release notes

See Release Notes for a complete list.