In Foglight Experience Monitor (FxM), on my report for 'Analysis Table - SOAP Consumers', the IP for one of the SOAP Consumers listed is my BigIP. This one Consumer is generating the majority of the SOAP Operations.
Is there some way to get the originating SOAP Consumer IP behind the load balancer to break out the IPs of the individual SOAP Consumers behind the load balancer?
RESOLUTION 1
Move FxM to the other side of the load balancer so it can see the originating Client IPs. Keep in mind that would mean it will no longer see individual servers (there would be a single server with the VIP of the load balancer). Of course, with this deployment, FxM can use the SERVER_ID tag methodology to identify the individual servers. There is no equivalent for finding the id of the originating Consumers.
RESOLUTION 2
Check your load balancer documentation to see if your load balancer has a configuration option like that found in proxy servers. Proxy servers have the option to include the original client IP address in the HTTP request header using the X-Forwarded-For tag (or Client-IP tag). FxM will automatically detect either of those tags and put in the correct client IP address.
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