GTM Global Availability Load Balancing to Down Pool
Hey All,
I've been working on configuring Wide IPs utilizing the Global Availability setting. I have two LTMs configured as servers on the GTM with the bigip monitor applied, so the GTM knows the status of the LTMs VServers. I've created my Wide IP and configured two pools with Global Availability enabled (on one of the LTMs I configured a bogus health check so that the .dev pool would go down):
Within the pools I have the preferred method set to Global Availability, alternate set to Round Robin, and Fallback set to Return to DNS. This shouldn't really matter since I only have one server defined in each pool - I only care about the wide IP level at this point? When I do a test ping to the DNS name "test1.gtm.domain.lab" it responds with the server that is down.
Seems like it's bypassing the Wide IP setting altogether and not taking into account that the vserver is down. Anyone have any suggestions?
Thanks,
Brian
I would expect that to work.
This is how I implement it. Can you instead create just one pool with the two Virtual Servers in it? Associate this one pool to the Wide IP. At the pool level have the settings of Global Availability, Round Robin and Return to DNS. This configuration should achieve the functionality.