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jaked_150553
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Aug 05, 2014

generic hosts in gtm pools

If generic hosts are added to a gtm pool, how does GTM get health of the node? Is it through polling from one of the self ips? If an alias is added to a pool instead of nodes, how does GTM get the he...
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Aug 06, 2014

If the pool member is not in the same subnet as the self IP, then GTM will use its routing table to determine where to send the traffic to. Do you have a default route specified on the GTM? If so, it'll use that. If not, you may need to configure one.

 

GTM will select a non-floating self IP as its source.

 

Ensure you configure your GTM pool with virtual servers so GTM has somewhere to resolve wide IP requests to.