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Wahezu_23937
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Jul 06, 2015

Virtual Server even when default pool is down when iRule is assigned.

Hi,   We are configuring GTMs to load balance two DCs and I am facing an issue as VS never goes down then they have an iRule assigned even though the pool associated is down. We want to rely on iQ...
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arpydays
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Jul 06, 2015

what I've done in the past is configure a dummy VS on the LTM and associate it with the pool in question. Then in the GTM member config have that dummy VS as a dependancy on the main VS member. Therefore if the pool goes down and hence the dummy VS then the main VS will go down.

 

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