Controlling VIP Monitor Status by monitoring two nodes/pool member

Ashish Sharm,

I wonder if this will help. In the External Interface pool, which you have assigned to your VIP, I assume you have a health monitor attached. You could create a new Monitor (whatever type e.g. TCP) and configure the Alias Address/Port to match an Internal Interface IP/Port. You assign this monitor to the External Interface Pool but it won't monitor the pool members, rather the alias address instead. In the pool configuration you then select Availability Requirement to All. This means if the new monitor fails i.e. the internal interface is down, then it will mark the External Interface pool members as being down too. So they are now both linked.

Hope this helps,

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