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SuRaSej_89044's avatar
SuRaSej_89044
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Apr 21, 2009

LTM and Link Controller path check question

First of all, i would like to apologize for my english.I have a couple questions about Path and link monitoring.     1. Why should i mark a Transparent to YES for icmp gateway monitor? Beca...
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dennypayne's avatar
dennypayne
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Apr 21, 2009
Hi Surasej,

 

 

Transparent means that you are monitoring *through* the device to another address, rather than just monitoring that address itself. In other words, if you want to monitor a firewall or router, it does you no good to ping the inside interface because that doesn't tell you anything about path availability. So you monitor through that device to something else.

 

 

Hope that helps,

 

Denny