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mstorck_64567
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Apr 08, 2008

iRule to scan solaris specifications

Hello,   Currently I have two Solaris machines that act as web servers and also have other services running on them. I was wondering if there was a way to write an iRule to poll each machine and d...
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The_Bhattman
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Apr 08, 2008
Unfortunatly, there is no clean way to do this. I had the same request from my clients and after looking at F5's professional services and doing some Proof of Concepts it turns out the F5 indirectly does this with a combination of monitoring and the canned load balancing methods. For instance, if the ultimate goal is to send traffic to the fastest responding system assuming performance for the app is directly porportional to CPU and Memory, then you would choose the load balancing method that looks at response times.

 

 

I know this doesn't really answer your question completely, but hopefully it provides some new insite that you were not thinking about before.

 

 

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