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Nimbostratus

Feb 06, 2014

Tolerant gateway_icmp monitor?

We have gateway failsafe configured for our HA pair. Which despite being misconfigured and no mention of it when we previously had a support case open, it seemed to do the right thing. Including af...

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nitass_89166

Noctilucent

So, is there an alternative gateway_icmp monitor that does multiple pings, or requires that a certain number of gateway_icmp's fail in a row before triggering failover?

as uni explained, it is done by interval and timeout in health monitor setting.

Though I wonder if I should add the vlan that the gateway is in to vlan failsafe? (its looking at the vlan for public facing VSs and an internal vlan which has a number of servers for core services.)

there are 2 configurations; one is vlan failsafe and the other one is ha group. if you want to failover when interface is down, ha group is the way you go.

sol13297: Overview of VLAN failsafe (10.x - 11.x)

http://support.f5.com/kb/en-us/solutions/public/13000/200/sol13297.html

Manual Chapter: Understanding Fast Failover

http://support.f5.com/kb/en-us/products/big-ip_ltm/manuals/product/bigip_redundant_systems_config_11_0_0/8.html