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Antoine_80417
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May 27, 2013

active_members change Virtual Serverstate

Hello,   I want to check the status of two pools in an iRule that is associated to a virtual server. The first pool is the application pool that is configured on the virtual server, the second poo...
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nitass
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May 27, 2013
i understand it is by design.

sol6514: BIG-IP may not reflect the expected status for virtual servers that use iRules or HTTP classes to select a pool

http://support.f5.com/kb/en-us/solutions/public/6000/500/sol6514.html?sr=18068062 

[root@ve10:Active] config  b virtual bar list
virtual bar {
   snat automap
   pool foo
   destination 172.28.19.252:80
   ip protocol 6
}

[root@ve10:Active] config  b pool foo|grep -i pool\ member
+-> POOL MEMBER foo/200.200.200.101:80   inactive,down

[root@ve10:Active] config  snmpwalk -v 2c -c public localhost F5-BIGIP-LOCAL-MIB::ltmVsStatusAvailState.\"bar\"
F5-BIGIP-LOCAL-MIB::ltmVsStatusAvailState."bar" = INTEGER: red(3)

[root@ve10:Active] config 
[root@ve10:Active] config 
[root@ve10:Active] config 
[root@ve10:Active] config  b rule myrule list
rule myrule {
   when CLIENT_ACCEPTED {
  pool foo2
}
}

[root@ve10:Active] config  b virtual bar rule myrule
[root@ve10:Active] config  b pool foo2|grep -i pool\ member
+-> POOL MEMBER foo2/200.200.200.111:80   active,up

[root@ve10:Active] config  snmpwalk -v 2c -c public localhost F5-BIGIP-LOCAL-MIB::ltmVsStatusAvailState.\"bar\"
F5-BIGIP-LOCAL-MIB::ltmVsStatusAvailState."bar" = INTEGER: green(1)