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Michael_K_15546
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May 19, 2014

How can the F5 inform a node it is about to become the primary active node?

I have a collection of nodes living behind an F5 BIG-IP Link Controller. One subset of these nodes needs to be configured such that all incoming requests (probably on a certain port) are directed to ...
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Michael_K_15546
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May 21, 2014

Thanks Eric.

 

So the monitor will monitor the nodes in the pool and you are saying if the health check call for one fails then I could call the URL to start services on the next node to be come the active node?

 

How would I know which secondary node the F5 is going to pick to become the new primary? (So I can call it to tell it to start its processes)

 

Thanks, Mike