Hands-On Azure for Developers

Endpoints

The main functionality of Azure Traffic Manager is the ability to configure the endpoints it handles. You can access it through the Endpoints blade:

To add an endpoint, you have to enter the following values:

• Type: You can choose between an Azure endpoint, External endpoint, and Nested endpoint. The difference impacts the whole form—with Azure endpoint you can choose an Azure service, External endpoint requires providing a fully qualified domain name or IP, and when you select Nested endpoint you can point to another Traffic Manager profile.
• Name: Unique name of an endpoint.
• Target resource type/FQDN or IP/Target resource: Depending ...