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Nimbostratus
Nimbostratusmodifying config on the fly
So here the scenario:
The client has an old app running which can only handle 150 connections before it starts thrashing. The app feeding this runs a bunch faster, and ends up choking the old ap...
As Kevin is alluding to, if there is some sort of data, stat, metric or anything else that the LTM could read/poll/look-up to determine if it needed to adjust the limit, this could be done within an iRule and be "set and forget", or near enough to not matter. If it is completely arbitrary, well, that's a bit more manual-user-interventiony, then.
Perhaps an SNMP poll to the server to see how the CPU/Memory is doing? A monitor set up on the LTM that flips under certain conditions? Something?
Just trying to exhaust options. :)
Colin
