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Brett_12868
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Aug 18, 2010

Load balance DB2 with the GTM?

I have been looking into load balancing DB2 with the GTM. I didnt see any F5 provided monitors to do this. Does anyone have any experience with load balancing DB2 using GTM or LTM? if yes how did you setup the monitors?

 

 

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Brett
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  • George_Watkins_'s avatar
    George_Watkins_
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    Aug 26, 2010
    Hi Brett,

     

     

    There are no default DB2 monitors provided in GTM or LTM. You can use a standard TCP monitor, but that will only tell you if the port is listening and able to establish a connection. If you want additional checking, I'd recommend writing a EAV monitor on the LTM using Perl. You might have to add the relevant DB2 libraries, but it is definitely doable. Hope this helps,

     

     

    -George
  • L4L7_53191's avatar
    L4L7_53191
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    Sep 18, 2010
    If you're running version 10.x you can also use passive monitors for this - it's a perfect use case, actually. Applies to LTM only (need to be inline for this to work).

     

     

    -Matt