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dogg_dogg_23774
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Aug 07, 2012

Sending data received from sideband connection to backend servers

My client is looking to do the following.

 

(1) Source client send some data(http, ftp, smtp, etc) to LTM

 

(2) LTM collect the received data and connect to sideband servers

 

(3) Sideband servers process the data and generate a file

 

(4) LTM receive the file and send it(instead of original data from source) to backend servers(pool members)

 

 

I was looking into sideband connection features introduced in v11 to see if that helps, but could not be sure if it is possible to send data from sideband connection to pool member (rather than receiving and parsing it)??

 

 

Much appreciated if anyone could provide any advices or insights on this...

 

 

Thanks,

 

 

 

 

 

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  • Richard__Harlan's avatar
    Richard__Harlan
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    Aug 07, 2012
    You should be able to get the data from the sideband connection and use HTTP::retry to send the info to the server pool. With HTTP::retry you do not have to send the original request but can send anything. Hope that helps.

     

     

    https://devcentral.f5.com/wiki/iRules.HTTP__retry.ashx