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DarthW_125478
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Dec 27, 2012

iRule to ping host

I'm pretty new to the Big IP load balancers. We have a couple servers on which we have SharePoint sites load balanced. The load balancing appears to work fine. Obviously, I've set up a Virtual Server with a virtual IP, so when users connect to a site, for instance sitename.domain.net, they will connect to the IP of the virtual server and get load balanced. However, we talked about being able to ping the sitename.domain.net from a specific workstation and getting the IP address of the member server to whichthe specific workstation is connected currently to aid in troubleshooting, instead of the IP of the Virtual Server configured on the load balancer. The SharePoint admins say they saw this when we initially set up the Virtual Server, and I've not made any changes on the load balancer since. We did make some DNS tweaks, but I don't see where this would have enabled them to tell which member a specific workstation is connected to. I'm thinking we could set up an iRule for this, but again I'm new to the F5. Any ideas? Maybe there is an easier way? Thanks.

 

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