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A_124585
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Jan 03, 2014

Dynamic GTM load balancing for generic hosts?

Can a GTM be to used to dynamically load balance between generic host servers. [I don't have an LTM]   I see that the big3d agent is needed to collect statics for dynamic load balancing, and I ca...
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Hi A Just a quick question from you how are you monitoring the Links on your GTM box.... I mean do you have any realistic monitor that tries to fetch like www.google.com and based on that marks a link to the ISP as up or down??

 

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A_124585
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Jan 14, 2014
I understand about the different sorts of dymanic monitors, e.g. CPU etc. But as Techgeeg suggests I don't understand how the F5 knows what the CPU availability of my generic hosts is. I was just going to use a TCP half open connection.