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LmenD
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Jan 30, 2019

Best way to quickly drain web server connections

I have application teams complaining that client connections do not drain fast enough from their web servers to allow them to push out code changes quickly and efficiently. They state it can take upt...
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wlopez
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Jan 30, 2019

Are you doing 'Disable' or 'Force Offline' on the pool members?

 

'Disable' won't allow new connections but will keep current ones until they time out or are closed by the user.

 

'Force Offline' will not allow any new connections and tries to kill all current connections immediately.

 

Another more drastic method (not usually necessary) is to remove/delete the pool member and add it again once it's ready to receive traffic again. You'll lose previous statistics for the pool member with this method.