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cody8411_186897
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Jul 28, 2016
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Active/Standby load balancing dynamically with LTM

I'm not sure if I'm using the right terminology, but some application folks want to set up identical web servers where they can test upgrades and changes to server A while maintaining production traf...
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  • ekaleido_26616's avatar
    ekaleido_26616
    Jul 28, 2016

    Priority groups. You can assign nodes in a pool to different priority groups so that some nodes will only be used if others with a better priority are down.

     

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Jul 28, 2016

Priority groups. You can assign nodes in a pool to different priority groups so that some nodes will only be used if others with a better priority are down.

 

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cody8411_186897
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Jul 28, 2016

Is there some other way I can monitor those devices to make it so they can trigger the priority in those pools? For instance, if I just use a basic TCP port monitor, those ports will never go down or be disabled.