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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

My apologies, I see you are looking specifically for DNS load balancing and no proxy.

 

You can setup GTM to use an HTTP monitor to do this. Your two nodes would be members of a GTM pool and would be assigned to a wide IP. GTM would respond back to the client's request with whichever node is active at the time, based on the custom HTTP monitor you build.