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pjcampbell_7243
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Feb 07, 2011

Offload a specific outbound ssl request?

Hi all     We have an issue where when our code goes out to check a 3rd party vendor for product inventory via HTTPS directly from the Java/apache webserver, the load spikes.     We coul...
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hoolio
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Feb 07, 2011
That seems like a reasonable test to try. You can use the default server SSL profile as long as the remote pool member doesn't require a client cert. If that's the case, then you'd want to create a custom server SSL profile with the client cert configured.

 

 

If remote pool members haven't worked in the past, I'd check routing on LTM first and then firewall(s) between LTM and the internet.

 

 

Aaron