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Server Load Balancer:UpdateServerGroupAttribute

Last Updated:Oct 23, 2026

Updates the properties of a load balancing server group.

Operation description

The UpdateServerGroupAttribute operation is asynchronous. The system returns a request ID, but the server group configuration is not immediately updated. The update task continues to run in the background. You can call ListServerGroups to query the update status of the server group configuration:

  • When the server group configuration is in the Configuring state, the configuration is being updated.

  • When the server group configuration is in the Available state, the configuration is updated.

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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:UpdateServerGroupAttribute

update

*All Resource

*

None None

Request parameters

Parameter

Type

Required

Description

Example

ServerGroupId

string

Yes

The ID of the server group.

sgp-atstuj3rtoptyui****

ServerGroupName

string

No

The name of the server group.

The name must be 2 to 128 characters in length, and must start with a letter or Chinese character. It can contain digits, periods (.), underscores (_), and hyphens (-).

testServerGroupName

Scheduler

string

No

The scheduling algorithm. Valid values:

  • 5TCH: 5-tuple hash. Consistent hashing based on the 5-tuple (source IP address, destination IP address, source port, destination port, and protocol). Requests from the same flow are scheduled to the same backend server.

  • 3TCH: 3-tuple hash. Consistent hashing based on the 3-tuple (source IP address, destination IP address, and protocol). Requests from the same flow are scheduled to the same backend server.

  • 2TCH: 2-tuple hash. Consistent hashing based on the 2-tuple (source IP address and destination IP address). Requests from the same flow are scheduled to the same backend server.

Valid values:

  • 2TCH :

    2-tuple hash.

  • 5TCH :

    5-tuple hash.

  • 3TCH :

    3-tuple hash.

5TCH

ServerFailoverMode

string

No

The processing method for existing traffic when a server exception occurs. Valid values:

  • NoRebalance: Does not rebalance existing traffic.

  • Rebalance: Rebalances existing traffic.

Valid values:

  • Rebalance :

    Rebalances existing traffic.

  • NoRebalance :

    Does not rebalance existing traffic.

NoRebalance

ConnectionDrainConfig

object

No

The configuration for connection draining.

ConnectionDrainEnabled

boolean

No

Specifies whether to enable connection draining. Valid values:

  • true: Enables connection draining.

  • false: Disables connection draining.

false

ConnectionDrainTimeout

integer

No

The timeout period for connection draining.

Unit: seconds.

Valid values: 1 to 3600.

300

HealthCheckConfig

object

No

The health check configuration.

HealthCheckConnectPort

integer

No

The port of the backend server used for health checks.

Valid values: 1 to 65535.

80

HealthCheckConnectTimeout

integer

No

The maximum timeout period for a health check response.

Unit: seconds.

Valid values: 1 to 300.

5

HealthCheckDomain

string

No

The domain name used for health checks. Valid values:

  • $SERVER_IP: The internal IP address of the backend server.

  • domain: A custom domain name. The domain name must be 1 to 80 characters in length, and can contain only letters, digits, hyphens (-), and periods (.).

Note

This parameter takes effect only when HealthCheckProtocol is set to HTTP.

$SERVER_IP

HealthCheckEnabled

boolean

No

Specifies whether to enable health checks. Valid values:

  • true: Enables health checks.

  • false: Disables health checks.

true

HealthCheckHttpCode

array

No

The list of HTTP status codes for healthy backend servers.

string

No

The HTTP status codes for healthy backend servers. Separate multiple status codes with commas (,). Valid values:

  • http_2xx: HTTP 2xx status codes indicate healthy backend servers.

  • http_3xx: HTTP 3xx status codes indicate healthy backend servers.

  • http_4xx: HTTP 4xx status codes indicate healthy backend servers.

  • http_5xx: HTTP 5xx status codes indicate healthy backend servers.

Default value: http_2xx.

Note

This parameter takes effect only when HealthCheckProtocol is set to HTTP.

Valid values:

  • http_4xx :

    HTTP 4xx status codes indicate healthy backend servers.

  • http_3xx :

    HTTP 3xx status codes indicate healthy backend servers.

  • http_5xx :

    HTTP 5xx status codes indicate healthy backend servers.

  • http_2xx :

    HTTP 2xx status codes indicate healthy backend servers.

http_2xx

HealthCheckInterval

integer

No

The interval between two consecutive health checks.

Unit: seconds.

Valid values: 1 to 50.

10

HealthCheckPath

string

No

The health check path.

The path must be 1 to 80 characters in length, and can contain only letters, digits, and the following special characters: -/.%?#&. It must start with a forward slash (/).

Note

This parameter takes effect only when HealthCheckProtocol is set to HTTP.

/test/index.html

HealthCheckProtocol

string

No

The protocol used for health checks. Valid values:

  • TCP: Sends SYN handshake packets to check whether the server port is alive.

  • HTTP: Sends GET requests to simulate browser access and check whether the server application is healthy.

TCP

HealthyThreshold

integer

No

The number of consecutive successful health checks that must occur before the health status of a backend server changes from Failed to Successful.

Valid values: 2 to 10.

2

UnhealthyThreshold

integer

No

The number of consecutive failed health checks that must occur before the health status of a backend server changes from Successful to Failed.

Valid values: 2 to 10.

2

HealthCheckReq

string

No

HealthCheckExp

string

No

DryRun

boolean

No

Specifies whether to perform a dry run. Valid values:

  • true: Performs a dry run without updating the server group information. The system checks whether required parameters are specified, the request format is valid, and the service limits are met. 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): Performs a dry run and sends the actual request. If the request passes the dry run, 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 the value, but you must ensure that it is unique among different requests. The client token can contain only ASCII characters.

Note

If you do not specify this parameter, the system automatically uses the RequestId of the API request as the ClientToken. The RequestId of each API request is unique.

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

Response elements

Element

Type

Description

Example

object

The response struct.

RequestId

string

The ID of the request.

54B48E3D-DF70-471B-AA93-08E683A1B45

Examples

Success response

JSON format

{
  "RequestId": "54B48E3D-DF70-471B-AA93-08E683A1B45\n"
}

Error codes

HTTP status code

Error code

Error message

Description

400 IllegalParam.HealthCheckProtocol The param of %s is illegal. The health check protocol is invalid. Check the input parameters.
400 IncorrectStatus.ServerGroup The status of %s [%s] is incorrect. The status of %s [%s] is incorrect.
400 OperationDenied.SchedulerNotConfigurable The scheduling algorithm of server group is configurable only when TCP idle timeout of listener is default value. The scheduling algorithm of server group is configurable only when TCP idle timeout of listener is default value.
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.