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Derek_21893
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Aug 06, 2009

Discovery of failover peer using iControl

Hi,     I'd like to be able to discover a failover peer for an active-active or active-standby pair of LTMs using iControl. From what I can tell there is no good way to do this currently. ...
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Apr 09, 2010
Hm, I would think that the ARP entry for the failover communication IP addresses would always be in the ARP cache, since there is quite a bit of communication which happens on that link.

 

 

Using the floating IP addresses will not work 100% of the time either, in the following cases:

 

 

- there are no floating self-ip addresses on the LTM because it is not the default gateway for hosts

 

- there are identical self-ip addresses defined on multiple pairs because you are using anycast (having the same VIP IP in multiple data centers)

 

 

I could definitely ssh to the admin interface and run bigpipe commands to get the configuration, then store the configuration for parsing later, so there are ways around this. I just thought it would be cleaner to do everything in iControl.