Troubleshooting Dynamic Ratio Load Balancing
Hello,
I have a collection of 8 servers that need balancing, and unfortunately all other balancing methods have proven ineffective, due to the spontaneous nature of the spikes they receive. This has made me conclude that Dynamic Ratio is the only way to go. The servers are currently using IIS 8.5 and Windows 2012 R2.
The following steps are what I took in my attempt to get this working.
-Created C:\Inetpub\scripts, place web.config in there with the following text:
-Created C:\Inetpub\scripts\bin and placed F5.IsHandler.dll inside.
-Used Command Prompt to enter, "appcmd set config "Default Web Site/scripts" /section:anonymousAuthentication /overrideMode:Allow /commit:APPHOST"
-Went to IIS Manager, created a new Application Pool titled "F5 Application Pool", set its identity to NetworkService
-Created a new application called "scripts", set the physical path to the bin folder.
-Modified the "Authentication" of scripts to disabled on everything except Basic Authentication
-Went to Monitors on Traffic Manager, created a new monitor named "WMI_Monitor_F5", used default settings and changed the URL to the correct directory.
-Went to each server on a node level, changed "Health Monitors" from Node Default to Node Specific, added WMI_Monitor_F5 to each.
-Changed the Load Balancing Method on the pool level to Dynamic Ratio.
Everything seemed to work, however, when attempting to use curl to verify, it failed, showing that something went wrong.
Does anyone know if I missed something, or have made a mistake somewhere? Any help would be greatly appreciated, thank you.