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D__Yutzy_151141
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May 30, 2014

Best Practice for SAML, F5

I currently have a situation where the team as designed the following for SAML:   Active/Passive If server A goes dead, server B becomes active. When server A comes back online, I now have an act...
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R_Eastman_13667
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May 30, 2014

I think that you should probably have both active at all times and configure your pool load balancing to use both based on your requirements. If one node in the pool goes down, traffic will be routed to the remaining active node in the pool. Any connections to the inactive node when it failed will be routed to the active node in which users will have to re-authenticate with the SAML IdP. When the inactive node comes back online, it will be available for new connections. Existing connections to the active node will continue.