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Andy_Litzinger's avatar
Andy_Litzinger
Dec 15, 2008

Can I use iControl to force disconnect of all tcp sessions on a pool member?

We are planning some simple HA for two databases, Node A and Node B (active/standby). When we take one DB node offline we'd like to be able to forcibly reset any active tcp connections that are conne...
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John_Gruber_432
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Dec 26, 2008
I just got a request to work on this same problem myself.... I referenced

 

http://devcentral.f5.com/wiki/default.aspx/iControl/PoolToggle.html..

 

 

I just tested this on version 9.4.6. Setting the instance monitor state to STATE_DISABLED will trigger whatever the provisioned 'Action on Service Down' is set to on the member's pool. If it is set to 'None' connections will remain. If it is set to 'Reject', toggling the monitor state will send resets to the clients.

 

 

Hope this helps,

 

 

John