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Pieter_72260
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Feb 07, 2013

High speed logging and round robin load balancing issues

Hi,   We have a couple of F5 servers that have an iRule that uses HSL to send log messages to a pool of remote rsyslog daemons.   The rsyslog daemons are added to one pool, and the pool is con...
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jimmythegeek_10
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Apr 22, 2016

SOL17398 covers this. Load balancing decisions are made in the logging profile, and HSL will stick to the pool member chosen until the server indicates it can't keep up or the connection is lost, at which point another pool member is seleted. As of 12.0 you can change the distribution approach to "balanced" to spread the log messages evenly across pool members. This is done in the unformatted HSL log destination configuration setting for Distribution.

 

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