GTM requirements

The following are the functional requirements of GTM or an equivalent feature within CDN:

  • GTM provides one public IP address. The system arbitrarily routes a request with the IP address as destination to either of the two (or more) public IP addresses.

  • You can configure the ratio of traffic between the IP addresses at GTM. For example, you can achieve a fair load balancing across different sites with a ratio of 50:50.

  • GTM actively monitors the IP addresses for responsiveness through a liveness object/URL. If it discovers that a particular site is unavailable, it redirects the whole traffic to the active site, irrespective of the configured ratio.

  • GTM IP address is always available. It is never unresponsive.