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November 23rd, 2012 04:00
Sourceone and F5 load balancer
Hello,
Firstly, I am the load balancer monkey. So go easy on me when explaining sourceone !.
We have an F5 load balancer and have successfully load balanced what the storage guy tells me in the 'online' archive. Straight forward we have a VIP on the F5 that listens on port 80 and we then load balance it, with persistency, to a couple of backend servers on port 80 too. Work, marvellous.
There is this offline thing he wants, I am told this listend on tcp ports 8001 and 8002 and protocol is HTTP. So we create two VIPs, same IP address but the two different listner ports, we create two backend pools with the same server but with the two distinct listener ports.
The virtual server is marked as down, cause the pools are down.Fair, enough.
As a health monitor I have tried the basic GET \n/n and also GET / HTTP/1.1\r\nHost: \r\nConnection: Close\r\n. I have had to use that on some Oracle/Sun Java stuff before, the bog standard GET don't work.
Now I am not sure if I am meant to put a receieved string in.
If from the F5 I telnet to either port. I am making a connection and then being told to go away 'connect closed be remote host' etc
So, any documentatin / tricks / tips, anyone done this before ?
The web seems eerily quiet on this one.
Cheers,
George
RKatwal
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November 23rd, 2012 05:00
Hi George,
I believe those are tcp ports.
Regards,
Rajan Katwal
Sent from my iPhone
Please ignore typing mistakes.
Gary_Reardon
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November 23rd, 2012 07:00
Ports 8001 and 8002 do not use HTTP, Protocol is TCP.
devilwearsF5
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November 23rd, 2012 07:00
Hello,
Sorry, my mistake. Yes ports are TCP 8001 and TCP 8002 and protocol is also TCP.
From an F5 load balancer perspective, what I meant to say is I am using an HTTP profile, in the F5 world, probably won't mean much unless you have seen F5 load balancers.
Very grateful for all posts so far, it might just nudge my feeble and ailing mind in the right direction.
Cheers,
George
daemon8814
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December 13th, 2013 06:00
Any luck on this? I am trying to load balance our SourceOne worker servers with our F5 LTMs but have been unsuccessful. As a test, I created the HTTP iApp, created the VIP on port 8001, and assigned just a single worker (we have 6 but using just one for now to test) on port 8001 to the pool. I then modified my local hosts file to point to the VIP for our alias s1work01 but when I try to connect via the offline plugin for Outlook, it just gets stuck at querying for the worker server.