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Wes_98712
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Jun 02, 2006

IIS Host Headers and ECV health monitoring

Interesting situation has come up, we have 2 IIS servers hosting sharepoint team services sites (8 sites in a front-end web farm on both servers hitting the same content database). We have been reques...
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Deb_Allen_18
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Feb 02, 2009
I would need a pool/monitor pair for each site

 

 

This is correct. Separate pools containing the same pool members are critical to the vhost solution. Pool members with same IP:port in different pools will be marked up & down independently by their host-specific monitors. Contrast that to instead applying all host-specific monitors to the same pool member with an "All UP" requirement: In that case, failure of a single host-specific monitor would make the pool member unavialable for load balancing for any vhost.