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danphil
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Apr 18, 2024

health monitor source IP address

Hi there,   Has somebody ever tried to change the source IP address for the LTM health monitor? To work around a specific design in the network I do not want to use the egress interface local self...
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    danphil
    May 01, 2024

    Dear SanjayP, 

    Thanks for your time and reply.
    The multi VIP solution was tried before posting the question here. I used an alias in the healthmonitor that was pointing to a VIP where I could indeed do a SNAT. But this only works for a pool with one poolmember. Indeed this was a complex solution to administer.
    But the good news is that meanwhile we found a solution in the network (Cisco ACI) to distribute the transit network to legacy network behind the ACI.  So we can use standard health monitors.