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SergioPontes_36
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NimbostratusHow to Work Real_Server monitor
Hey Friends,
I'd like to understand more details on how it works the monitor "real_server" works and what settings are needed on the F5 and server side for it to work. Thanks if you can give me a practical example of applying this type of monitor.
Sérgio Pontes.
youssef1Cumulonimbus
Hi,
To sum up it allow you to implement a Dynamic Ratio load balancing depending of your systemp performance.
real_server monitor provides a monitor plug-in that gathers the necessary metrics when you have installed the plug-in on the RealSystem Server system (windows or linux). Configuring a RealSystem Server for Dynamic Ratio load balancing consists of four tasks:
- Installing the monitor plug-in on the RealSystem Server system
- Configuring a Real Server monitor on the BIG-IP system
- Associating the monitor with the server to gather the metrics
- Creating or modifying the server pool to use Dynamic Ratio load balancing
Once the plug-in is installed and compiled, you must configure a Real Server monitor, associate the configured monitor with the node (a RealSystem Server server), and set the load balancing method to Dynamic Ratio.
For mor info:
https://support.f5.com/kb/en-us/products/big-ip_ltm/manuals/product/ltm-concepts-11-5-0/14.html
regards