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SergioPontes_36
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Jul 04, 2018

How 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 g...
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youssef1
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Jul 05, 2018

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/content/kb/en-us/products/big-ip_ltm/manuals/product/ltm-concepts-11-5-1/_jcr_content/pdfAttach/download/file.res/BIG-IP_Local_Traffic_Manager__Concepts.pdf

 

https://support.f5.com/kb/en-us/products/big-ip_ltm/manuals/product/ltm-concepts-11-5-0/14.html

 

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