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S_Timmerman_163
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Jul 17, 2014

Deployment strategy for daytime deployment

Hi all,   I am new to using F5 LTM for load balancing, and have been tasked with setting up a deployment strategy that enables us to do daytime deployment.   We have a pool of 100 webservers. W...
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Lucas_Thompson_
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Jul 20, 2014

It really depends on how much automation you'd like and how comfortable you are with advanced configuration / irule development / scripting. irules could be put together with data groups to define pool membership and do all of this automatically. You could do as Mel suggested and use the existing UI to configure groups of pools. Or you could develop some scripts with tmsh. Or you could use iControl to integrate your existing CM system with LTM.