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Nimbostratus

Oct 10, 2007

Bleeding Off Users...

Hello All, First off let me start off by explaining that i'm very new to the BigIP family so my questions may be a bit on the newb side, sorry in advance. I'd like to know how to b...

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Deb_Allen_18

Historic F5 Account

Oct 10, 2007

Hi Bob -

Welcome!

The 4.5 manual explains it fairly well (Click here) but it doesn't seem to mention the GUI option for Enabled/Disabled is "Enable Sessions" checkbox, which I think is what you're looking for...

In summary:

To bleed off connections, you'll need a persistence profile applied to the pool, then you'd uncheck "Enable Sessions" to bleed off connections (only persistent or active connections will be accepted) or uncheck "Enable Connections" to disallow any new connections (existing connections will be allowed to finish).

To remove a server from service in all pools by IP address, go to the Node Address and uncheck "Enable Sessions" to bleed off connections or uncheck "Enable Connections" to disallow all new connections.

HTH

/deb