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Brian_Moore_603
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Aug 29, 2007

bringing multiple sites in and out of service

I need a way for a group of users in my network to force a group of servers offline in the F5 with a script? I am needing this so that we can roll out code changes to those servers and then put them ...
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hoolio
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Aug 29, 2007
A quick and dirty solution would be to use bigpipe commands via the command line to disable the nodes. You can check the 'b pool help' or 'b node help' pages for details.

 

 

The syntax to disable a single pool member is:

 

 

b pool my_http_pool member 1.2.3.4:80 session disable

 

 

You could use a shell script to read in a list of nodes and run the command for them.

 

 

To disable nodes, you can use a list:

 

 

b node 1.2.3.4 1.2.3.5 session disable

 

 

To save the changes from memory to file, run 'b save'.

 

 

 

An elegant solution would be to use iControl to programmatically disable the nodes. You can check the iControl page for more info:

 

 

http://devcentral.f5.com/wiki/Default.aspx/iControl.HomePage

 

Click here

 

 

Aaron