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JDayar
Nimbostratus
NimbostratusGTM as a Forwarder to multiple ADs
Hi
I have gone through the community articles and F5 docs as well before posting this question. There are some information related to this query but I am still confused to how simply achieve this use case
I want to deploy my GTM as a forwarder for internal queries to my ADs, ADs will still handle all the resolution and return the response to client via GTM. GTM will check the health, load balance etc for client request to AD and provide availability incase any primary AD fail.
So do I need to configure anything specific on the GTM apart from SELF IPs, Listeners , Pools ( AD members ).
and my understanding is correct regarding the traffic path
User -> GTM -> AD and AD -> GTM -> User
User will have GTM Listener as DNS server on the client machine.
I have 2 GTM, one on Primary and other in DR
Two AD servers in primary, one in DR
Hello,
I think you are on track; nothing is missing. Just ensure that the return traffic from the DNS servers is routed through the F5 GTM again. You can create two listeners for both TCP and UDP requests.
you can also, add a caching layer on the F5 GTM using the DNS profile attached to the listener.
Thanks,
Mohamed Salah
