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e0013192_143645
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Dec 02, 2015

Failover a portion of GTM WideIP to DR site

I have a requirement to perform what we are calling application failover between two datacenters. I have GTM configured in both datacenters and each datacenter has its own public IP space. I have a...
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Andy_McGrath's avatar
Andy_McGrath
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Dec 03, 2015

If you want to do failover just on GTM I would write a manual TMSH command list/script to disable the select GTM Pool members under your 22 WIPs:

modify gtm pool DC1_TEST_APP_POOL_01 members modify { /Common/DC1_LTM:DC1_TEST_APP_VS_HTTPS_01 { disabled } }
modify gtm pool DC1_TEST_APP_POOL_02 members modify { /Common/DC1_LTM:DC1_TEST_APP_VS_HTTPS_02 { disabled } }
modify gtm pool DC1_TEST_APP_POOL_03 members modify { /Common/DC1_LTM:DC1_TEST_APP_VS_HTTPS_03 { disabled } }
...

If you want to test full failover, i.e. fail LTM virtual servers if your using GTM and LTM together, then just disable the LTM Virtual Servers in the production DC either via the Web GUI or another TMSH command list.