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Rajesh_07_16489
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Jan 13, 2015

Loadbalancing proxies

Could you please suggest f5 configurations such as profiles, Health Monitor to be used to load balance outbound traffic across pair of Bluecoat Proxies. What is needed in f5 to make sure that outboun...
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Arie
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Jan 15, 2015

Rajesh,

 

Regarding additional profiles the answer would be that it depends. If you want to examine the traffic you'll need to add profiles, for instance. However, if load-balancing is the only thing you do there probably is no need for additional profiles.

 

Deb Allen has written an excellent article on external monitors: https://devcentral.f5.com/articles/ltm-external-monitors-the-basics

 

The wiki is located at https://devcentral.f5.com/wiki/AdvDesignConfig.ExternalMonitor.ashx.

 

Depending on how you can access the Bluecoat status you may be able to use an internal monitor. If that doesn't work it's likely that an external monitor can provide a solution.