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gowenfawr
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Sep 25, 2012

Flow chart of ASM interaction with requests?

We are adding ASM into an existing configuration where requests come into an LTM virtual server, are processed by several iRules, and then forwarded to their final destination servers.   I've been...
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nathe
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Sep 26, 2012
Greg,

 

 

As per another post about ASM and iRules I believe that there is no set flowchart to describe ASM/LTM/iRule interactions. I would say that in regards iRules and because it's Event based then certain iRule events will fire prior to the ASM and some after. For instance the HTTP_REQUEST event, and subsequent commands, will fire prior to HTTP_CLASS_SELECTED.

 

 

Hope this helps,

 

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