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Geordie_32542
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May 13, 2008

Load balance only to one peer if another computer is down

Hi guys, first post so please don't bite the newb.     I'm newish to Big IP and entirely new to iRules. We have a setup whereby four servers are deployed, two as COM+ proxies to two backen...
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May 22, 2008
You could also create an application health monitor on LTM that requests a resource from the app server via the proxy, and marks the proxy down if the expected response is not received. (Click here)

 

 

If the proxy is transparent, you can configure the monitor as transparent, and it will forward the request to the appservers' IP address via the proxy's MAC address.

 

 

If you'd like more info on that solution, please post back in the Mgmt & Monitoring forum: (Click here)

 

 

HTH

 

/deb