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critchos_253578
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Sep 26, 2016

F5 GTM Monitor Source Address

Hi   We have a F5 BIGIP running both LTM and GTM. GTM is on the common partition. We also have created several partitions and route domains for LTM to handle the routing of traffic to several fire...
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James_Thomson
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Sep 26, 2016

I'm not sure what versions you're running, but I think you're running into a default feature of GTM where it will try and use a BIG-IP "in the same datacenter" as the generic host you are probing. There's a function called "Prober Pool" which can be configured to be just your GTM's. This tells GTM to only use devices in the Prober Pool as monitors for generic hosts.

 

Look for Prober Pools Here. https://support.f5.com/kb/en-us/products/big-ip_gtm/manuals/product/gtm-concepts-11-3-0/4.html