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automus_134530
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Jan 08, 2015

GTM URL FAILOVER

I have two datacenter east and west from time to time i need to failover the site not the device but a site the sites have the same dns name but point at different ip. How can I do this or if this is even possible i really need help with this

 

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  • James_Thomson_0's avatar
    James_Thomson_0
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    Jan 12, 2015

    Do you have a GTM set up already and want to know how to do this or are you looking to see if GTM could do this?

    In GTM, you configure an object called a Wideip which points to a pool of IP addresses (called virtual servers).

    If you ever want to disable all the virtual servers in the datacenter, you can just disable the "Datacenter" object in GTM or you can disable specific virtual servers.

    Example:

    DatacenterA
    ServerObject: server1
        Virtual Server: 60.10.10.10
DatacenterB
    ServerObject: server2
        Virtual Server: 70.10.10.10

Wideip: www.app.com        
    Pool: AppPool
        VS: 60.10.10.10
        VS: 70.10.10.10

    You could now disable either the VS or go to the datacenter object and disable DatacenterB