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rolf's avatar
rolf
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Feb 24, 2009

hot to get the monitor source ip = mauto map ip??

Hi,

 

 

I wonder if it is possible to get the monitor ip = "auto map" ip or the SNAT ip? (without fancy firewall NAT tricks )

 

We had a strange phenomena where the physical IP of the BigIP was able to access a resource, but the SNAT/auto map IP wasn't.

 

 

Thanks for your help!

 

 

Best Regards,

 

Rolf
management
monitoring

2 Replies

  • dennypayne's avatar
    dennypayne
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    Feb 24, 2009
    I don't think it's possible (maybe in a db key?). Probably because we don't want to use up ephemeral ports on the SNAT IP for monitoring traffic, since we need them for processing client traffic. I just did a quick scan of the db keys on 9.4.3 and I didn't see anything promising...

     

     

    Denny
  • hoolio's avatar
    hoolio
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    Feb 24, 2009
    As Denny suggests, it's not possible. Both units in an active-standby pair need to independently poll the pool members to ensure they have valid state information for the nodes. But only the active unit can make requests from a shared IP address. So both units use static self IP addresses.

     

     

    Aaron