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sudhanshuagrawa
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Sep 26, 2017

F5 Load Balancer - persistence configuration requirement

Hi,   I have two servers with 6 instances of Webshpere application server on each i.e., 2 Severs and 12 instances in total and using F5 load balancer to route the traffic using Round Robin load ba...
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Jad_Tabbara__J1
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Sep 26, 2017

Hi,

 

You have many persistence profiles on the F5 if you have the LTM license.

 

If your clients supports cookie (example browsers) you can use "cookie" persistence profile for the "Default Persistence Profile" and then choose the "source_addr" persistence for the "Fallback Persistence Profile". Indeed, if client does not support "cookie" (example fatclient) it will use the fallback method.

 

In this manner you will ensure that all client traffic goes to the same node for a same session.

 

To configure this go to "Local Traffic ›› Virtual Servers : Virtual Server List ›› vs-name" choose the second tab "Resources" and choose "cookie" and "source_addr" for persistence profiles.

 

Hope it helps

 

Please give me a feedback

 

Regards