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aled_evans91_33
Nimbostratus
NimbostratusF5 equivalent of Alteon's buddy helthchecks
Hi all,
I'm in the process of migrating old Radware Alteon load balancers onto F5 kit. On the Alteons they have what's known as a "buddy health check". Basically what it does is monitor a second...
nathe
Cirrocumulus
CirrocumulusSounds like an "Alias Address" health monitor configuration. Normally you would create a health monitor, say HTTP, and apply it to a pool. In your situation you could assign it to the server A pool member and then create a new HTTP custom monitor with the Alias Address of Server B. Assign this to the member too and you could change Availability Requirement to All. This way if Server B went down this monitor would fail and take Server A down too.
See the following and Alias Address section: Monitors Concepts
Hope this helps,
N
