GTM Synchronization Group Modify Self-IP Resynchronization
I have four GTMs which are in a sync group, due to relocation of the equipment to the server room I need to change the self-ip , please advise me how to do the change without changing the configuration of the sync group. Thank you very much.
BGP Over 2 vlans to 2 Network switch
Hi, im testing a new design for ltm, when’re big ip will have 2 transit vlans to switch a and switch b and then i ll establish bgp over it. Switch will advertise default to Big ip and big ip will advertise vip and snat to switch. I use snat for vip since traffic should not drip when a switch fails. The way im advertising snat is by creating them as virtual server forward ip type with loose close and initiation enabled, and vip is configured as standard type with this snat. These will be advertised to bgp from kernal. I enabled connection mirroring for this vip, disabled autolast hop globally and vlan keyed connections. My expectation is connection to vip don’t drip when a switch fails or during big ip failover . And with bgp I disabled graceful restart and enabled bfd. This works with what I did so far. My question if if there is something I should think about before implementing in production or any that I can do make this better. Is my approach to advertise snat as forwadip vs correct ? I want to do similar approach with gtm as well and I’m thinking if I should create a non floating self ip like loopback for listener and snat to backend vip?
how to monitor the axfr master response
Hi everyone. Previously I had a zone transfer configuration between GTM (slave) and Microsoft AD (master). Recently, I have experienced problems with axfr access to the server with intermittent status, but for ixfr it is still monitored normally. I tested both using the dig tool. related to this, does anyone have experience, how to monitor the axfr master response? such as placing the master server into a pool, and monitoring it like a health monitor. some provide references to monitor links and external monitors, but I don't really understand. thank youBIG-IP DNS: Check Status Of Multiple Monitors Against Pool Member
Good day, everyone! Within the LTM platform, if a Pool is configured with "Min 1 of" with multiple monitors, you can check the status per monitor via tmsh show ltm monitor <name>, or you can click the Pool member in the TMUI and it will show you the status of each monitor for that member. I cannot seem to locate a similar function on the GTM/BIG-IP DNS platform. We'd typically use this methodology when transitioning to a new type of monitor, where we can passively test connectivity without the potential for impact prior to removing the previous monitor. Does anyone have a way through tmsh or the TMUI where you can check an individual pool member's status against the multiple monitors configured for its pool? Thanks, all!Any issue if setting up LTM and GTM/DNS on the same F5 Appliance Cluster?
Hi, we have a pair of F5 appliance, and plan to setup HA cluster. After HA configuration and both appliance in sync, LTM works well as active/standby mode as expected GTM delivery listener is active on active F5 appliance as expected, the dns queries are routed to the active appliance GTM wild-ip pool members are shown "down" state on Standby appliance. The status of Data Center/Links are also shown "down" on the Standby appliance. Is it normal? Both F5 appliances are configured under the same GTM sync-group with different external physical links. Can someone please advise? Thanks in advance!
Retrieve GTM pool member addresses (Bigrest)
A wide-IP has a pool of servers that are virtual-servers on an LTM. I would like to retrieve the pool member addresses of the virtual servers used in the wide-IP pool using the Bigrest Python library. wide-ip = site.com Pool Name = site_pool Pool Member A = site_a_vs (server = ltm_a) Pool Member B = site_b_vs (server = ltm_b) I can load the wide-IP which provides a poolReference. I can then load the pool, which provides a membersReference. The membersReference provides a serverReference (the LTM) and the vs name. From here, I can load all virtual servers on the server provided by the serverRefence, but unsure how to retrieve only the virtual servers that are relevant to the wide-IP. There is no virtualserver ID provided by the membersReference or ServerReference.
Priority group activation on GTM.
Hello All, I need to configure active standby configuration on GTM pool level, only one VS should be UP and second should be standby if one vs is down then traffic should pass to another VS and i can see there is one option Minimum-up Members but i do not know how to use it as a priority group activation on GTM level. If any one has any article or config suggestion please share. Many thanks in advanced for your time and consideration.
