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Domai's avatar
Domai
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Jun 12, 2014

GTM load balancing question

Hello guys, My question is related to GTM lb method. Lets assume that a pool for a wide ip has 3 virtual servers. The requirement is that when the first VS goes down the traffic should go to the seco...
availability
BIG-IP DNS
management
sap
Cory_50405's avatar
Cory_50405
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Jun 12, 2014

You could use an external monitor to check for the existence of a file for example and mark pool member availability accordingly. This puts the ability to bring the server up and down into the hands of the server admins.

 

We do this with an external monitor that logs into a server and runs a script and marks the node up or down based on the script output.