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Wangzixuan_3147
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Aug 09, 2018

How to change the LC type on GTM from energic-host to bigip

Hello everyone, our customer's topology environment as shown. I found that the GTM did not add the LC as a bigip type server, but instead added it as generic-host, so you can't use the auto discovery...
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Wangzixuan_3147
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Aug 13, 2018

Okay thank you. Ask another question, the customer only has only one data center physically, and three Datacenters are logically established according to the three ISPs, and Link is not configured. Is there any advantage to configuring the LC as a generic-host server? In fact, I want to know why engineers originally designed this way.