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Andy_Litzinger's avatar
Andy_Litzinger
Sep 29, 2011

Suggestions for geoip_lookup monitor

Hi, I'm using Topology based Global Load balancing for some wideip pools. I have two datacenters, one in Pennsylvania and one in Washington State. Each DC has its own public IP subnet and Quova cor...
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hooleylist
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Sep 30, 2011
Hi Andy,

 

 

How about creating a shell script on your GTMs which runs the geoip_lookup script? You could call the script from an external monitor on a dummy pool.

 

 

Or you could create a test LTM virtual server which uses an iRule to call whereis and sends a TCP or HTTP response of yes/no, good/bad, whatever based on the whereis result.

 

http://devcentral.f5.com/wiki/iRules.whereis.ashx

 

 

Aaron