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kev_245_28249
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Apr 26, 2011

Set the nexthop within Monitor

Hi,   I have a setup where routing to outbound 3rd party destinations is determined via the 'nexthop' gloabal irule command and applied to the VIP.   If I want to configure monitors on the BIG...
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hoolio
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Apr 26, 2011
Hi Kev,

 

 

Is the destination IP address dynamically selected? If so, you could use an inline monitor to look for layer 4 load balancing failures in load balanced traffic. Or you could use the LB_FAILED event to detect failures. If it's not dynamically selected, but it's a transparent destination, you could use a transparent monitor.

 

 

Else, can you clarify the scenario?

 

 

Thanks, Aaron