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sandiksk_35282
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Oct 20, 2015
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Active Standby servers in a pool

I have 2 Servers A and B . All my client connections need to go to server A .When Server A goes down the connections need to go server B. When Server A is back online all client connections need to c...
  • Vitaliy_Savrans's avatar
    Vitaliy_Savrans
    Oct 20, 2015

    You can achieve this by using priority group.

    Local Traffic  ››  Pools : Pool List  ››  pool_name

    Priority Group Activation   Less than  1  Available Member(s)

    for server A you need to use higher priority

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Ed_Summers
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Oct 22, 2015

Yes - once the higher priority group meets the 'minimum active members' threshold it will take all new connection requests (since you noted no persistence). However note that any ACTIVE connections that are on Node2 when Node1 comes back online will remain on Node2.