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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 07, 2014

This is normal behavior if you have your GTMs setup in a sync group. You can control which GTM devices perform monitoring on the generic host by using prober pools.

 

http://support.f5.com/kb/en-us/products/big-ip_gtm/manuals/product/gtm-implementations-11-1-0/18.html

 

Or just setup the proper routing on your other GTM appliances and that should fix your issue as well.

 

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Aug 07, 2014
How can this be achieved in an environment where there are no LTMs, only bigip GTM devices?