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Netmart
Nimbostratus
May 13, 2025Load 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...
Netmart
Nimbostratus
May 27, 2025Thank 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
MVP
May 28, 2025the link still works for me today.
you can put more than 1 health monitors to into a pool
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