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kbose_49650
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May 26, 2011

Using LTM as a change element

I am working on a design where I have to use an F5 LTM 1500 (ver 9.4.8) as a failover device and VIP provider for a pool of 3 MySQL database nodes. I have written an external monitor which does an ssh...
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hoolio
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May 26, 2011
If you're already using an external monitor to check the database nodes, you could potentially trigger a message (via syslog, ssh, etc) to the host(s) you need to change the config on. If you need to get a current list of the servers that are marked up, you could use tmsh or bigpipe from the external monitor script.

 

 

Aaron