F5 Application Designer Extensions
F5 Management Pack
Health Based Load Balancing (Scenario #1)
Enable / Disable LTM Pool Member based on IIS health-monitor state
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Prerequisites
• Install the F5 Management Pack (http://devcentral.f5.com/mpack)
• Windows Server 2008 Internet Information Services 7 management
pack (MS System Center catalog)
• System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2 management
pack (MS System Center catalog)
• Windows Server 2008 Operating System (Discovery) management
pack (MS System Center catalog)
• F5 Application Designer Library extension packs
(http://devcentral.f5.com/mpack):
– Core App Designer: Common Library
– IIS App Designer: Microsoft Internet Information Server 2008
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Preparation
• Discover F5 device (with at least 1 LTM Virtual Server and 2 LTM
Pool Members)
• Discover IIS 7 web servers (expected to run on the LTM Pool
Members discovered above)
• Discover overall application deployment (F5 + IIS 7) (see details
here):
– Look for the topic on “discovering an existing application” (here)
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Scenario
• Trigger an Error health-state for an IIS 7 specific monitor (IIS 7
Application Pool) by stopping the Default Application Pool on the IIS
Server hosted on LTM Pool Member 1
• See the related (hosting) App Instance health state turn red / Error
• See the related LTM Pool Member (1) health state turn red / Error
• Load balancing follows LTM Pool Member 2
• Resume the Success health-state for the IIS 7 monitor (IIS 7
Application Pool) by starting the Default Application Pool on the IIS
Server hosted on LTM Pool Member 1
• See the related (hosting) App Instance health state turn green /
Success
• See the related LTM Pool Member (1) health state turn green /
Success
• Load balancing follows LTM Pool Members 1 and 2
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