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AngryCat_52750
Nimbostratus
Nimbostratuslogging external redirect error
We want to create a VS to have our applications point to a internal address abc.example.com and have that redirect to an external vendor.
I get the redirect part but if the external vendor i...
hoolio
Cirrostratus
CirrostratusIf LTM issues an HTTP 30x redirect to an externally hosted site, it can't track the result of the client's subsequent request. If you want to have LTM monitor the state of a host, you could configure it in a pool and add a monitor. The caveat with this is that you'd need to hard code the IP address(es) for the external site in the pool. If you wanted to resolve the hostname to an IP address dynamically, you could create an external monitor to do this:
http://devcentral.f5.com/wiki/AdvDesignConfig.TemplateForExternalLtmMonitors.ashx
Aaron