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dwayne_22491's avatar
dwayne_22491
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Jan 25, 2011

Remote execution of script from GTM

I have two sites, one of which is the primary and the other which is secondary. I have MySQL databases at both and need to be able to keep track of which site is currently the primary and execute scr...
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hoolio
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Jan 25, 2011
Hi Dwayne,

 

 

You could potentially use an EAV monitor which references a shell script. The script could check the pool members to see if each is active.

 

 

I'm not sure how you'd want to detect a "recent" failure. Perhaps it would be better to have a majority of that logic set up on the servers themselves and just have the monitoring done from GTM.

 

 

Here is a related AskF5 solution:

 

 

SOL8154: The BIG-IP GTM EAV monitor considerations

 

http://support.f5.com/kb/en-us/solutions/public/8000/100/sol8154.html?sr=12322442

 

 

And here is a template EAV. It should work the same for GTM as LTM:

 

 

http://devcentral.f5.com/wiki/default.aspx/AdvDesignConfig/TemplateForExternalLtmMonitors.html

 

 

Aaron