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Netmart
Nimbostratus
NimbostratusLoad balancing NTP Servers
Hello, We want to put two NTP servers behind a F5 [GTM]. The applications only know the DNS name [VIP], while the F5 is forwarding NTP requests to only NTP Server A. Desired Failover Conditions li...
zamroni777
MVP
MVPyou can use pool member priority group config to make B only receives traffic when A is down.
NetmartNimbostratus
NimbostratusThank you.
The link you suggested seems to be not available anymore, but I read about the priority option as well. This way, ntp requests are forwarded to one server. However, the question remains how granular can the health check be done [beyond ICMP checks] for the F5 to determine when to forward NTP requests to the secondary ntp server, in case the primary is failing.
- zamroni777
the link still works for me today.
you can put more than 1 health monitors to into a pool
- Hamish
Cirrocumulus
You can make it as granular as you like with custom health monitors. The monitors can even feed back load stats to enable you to balance some traffic to one when the other is under heavy load.
