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rjones_46977
Feb 08, 2008Nimbostratus
dchenna - I'm an old Cisco guy and and new to F5, but I would rarely allow any software to have programmatic control over the settings on a production load balancer(s)...you're looking for trouble. (I don't need an answer, but something to think about) If your device is polling the DB (this table entry) and you want to either manually control what machine is used or there is a real machine failure, given your proposed solution won't you introduce your own issues if the DB table entry the F5 is polling for keeps sending it back to an undesireable server? Don't you now have to worry about load balancing the database table entry the F5 keeps polling for (what if it's not available)? I'm not suggesting you haven't thought of this already, but just something (if you're already in a complicated environment) that may not require the complexity of what you're trying to do. You're problem seems to be not one of load balancing, but of making available and controlling successful data loads.