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ashokp1
Nimbostratus
Aug 11, 2025Best approach to serve maintenance page
Hi, We need to put website under maintenance for about 6 hours. Traffic flow: Clients -->Akamai--->F5-->Backend servers. We have maintenance page hosted in AWS cloud Front. which approach...
Aswin_mk
MVP
Aug 15, 2025Hello ashokp1
You can use the BIG-IP system to respond (with a maintenance page) if the virtual server resources (pool or pool members) are unavailable.
When the BIG-IP system receives a request for a virtual server that does not have available resources (for example, the pool is marked down with no available pool members) you can configure an iRule to send an HTTP response, such as a maintenance page, to the client. To do so, perform the following procedure:
Use an iRule to display a maintenance page when the pool is down
BR
Aswin
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