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Francois_Dumais
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Mar 04, 2014

Recreating a Node Status Dependent Round Robbin DNS effect with F5

We are migrating from Radware WSD to F5 Big-Ip and are blocked on one legacy farm. This farm was setup in such a way that it would resolve the farm name based on the health status of background CORBA...
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Cory_50405
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Mar 04, 2014

This can be done on LTM using HTTP monitors. If there's a special page to check for status (/amiupordown.html for example), you can tailor your HTTP monitor receive string to determine whether to mark the node up or down based on the content of the page.

 

This will allow the farm admin to control which server to activate with no changes required on the LTM.