- Written by Sanjay Subramanya
- Posted on January 27, 2026
- Updated on January 29, 2026
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Load Balancing on Service Leaf MLAG is a feature designed to support optimal load balancing of traffic sent to a ZTX Monitor Node cluster. The load balance functionality is essential to ensure that bi-directional flows land on the same ZTX Monitor Node in the cluster as all members of the ZTX Monitor Node cluster advertise a common anycast GRE endpoint.
- Written by Keerthana Parthasarathy
- Posted on March 4, 2025
- Updated on January 27, 2026
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The primary purpose of the ZTX Node in Monitor Mode is to provide visibility into app-to-app traffic in the network and to develop non-intrusive MSS policies that are aligned with applications requirements. Deploying group-based MSS policies is essential to secure Data Center and Campus environments, the ZTX Monitor Node provides the visibility needed to build such policies. The below diagram depicts how ZTX Node fits into a network to provide visibility.