[j-nsp] SRX as a server load balancer for service redundancy?

[Nick Kritsky]

Maybe d-nat pool is what you are looking for. I am not sure if there
is a health-check though - you may need to read documentation on that.

nick

On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 8:07 PM, OBrien, Will <ObrienH at missouri.edu> wrote:
> I'm wondering if I can do a simple server load balancer using a SRX.
>
> Example:
> Server A offers up service on port xxxx.
>
> Server B has the same service.
>
> If Server A goes offline, send traffic over to server B.
> Resume when Server A becomes available again.
>
>
>
> One thought is to use something like track-ip to push a static nat mapping around.
> Ideally, I'd love to monitor the port.
>
> Ideas or examples? This is really just for failover, rather than load balancing.
>
>
> I suppose I could monitor the service from a control machine and have a script execute a configuration change if the service becomes unreachable.
> I'd prefer it if the entire process were managed from the SRX.
>
> (In this case it's a pair of clustered SRX 210s.)
>
> Will
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