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Cristian_Gal's avatar
Cristian_Gal
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Dec 11, 2014

GTM unavailable Wide IP

I have the following issue with a GTM deployment. There is a wide ip defined that chooses between two datacenters (one of the primary, the other one secondary). When moving from primary to secondary ...
application delivery
BIG-IP DNS
LTM
mimlo_61970's avatar
mimlo_61970
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Dec 16, 2014

There is a check box at the bottom of the pool(at least in 11.2.1) labelled "Verify Virtual Server Availability". I have never used it, but I assume that will do what you are after. I would do a bit more research on this option before I used it. For instance, I don't know if it will stop sending traffic if the entire LTM is down, or under what other conditions it might send traffic to an address that can't answer.