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WWT_BIGIP_99228
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Oct 28, 2013

Monitor / Alert for GTM to know when Failover has occured

I have two datacenters and I want to know when GTM is handing out our DR addresses for a particular GTM Wide-IP. I have done some googling but have not turned up any custom monitors that could alert ...
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rob_carr
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Oct 28, 2013

It's not the function of a monitor (in either GTM or LTM) to notify external locations when a host is available/unavailable, but the change of state is logged, and you can use that log message to send an SNMP trap, generate an email, write a message to the LCD or execute an external script. Take a look at solution 3667 to see how to send email alerts.