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Josh_41258
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Nov 16, 2016

Trigger GTM failover based on LTM available pool members

I have seen this discussed a few times, but never really have found a real answer.   I have LTM configured in 2 datacenters. I have GTM in front of LTM sending all traffic to DC1 primarily, and s...
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Josh_41258
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Nov 21, 2016

The reason for doing this is that is 3/5 servers (for example) are down in any given location, it may be better to failover to the second datacenter which has 5/5 servers healthy, thus allowing them to handle more load, serve more requests, etc. This seems like a fairly common scenario to me. Thanks for the tip.