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Rob_Reece_12096
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Mar 26, 2013

clearing cookie on persisted sessions when pool member is down

Hi-     I am writing an iRule to detect a server crash - which I am defining as anytime a request gets a 500+ error code. On this event, I'd like to try other pool members before allowing th...
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Laudec_55181
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Mar 26, 2013
The pool configuration (under advanced) has "Action on Service Down", with an option to reselect. LTM will choose another pool member if one is available and rebind the client connection to a new serverside flow.

 

 

Now, what I am not sure about, is what this would do to persistent connections, especially cookies. Might be worth an experiment maybe? If it works gracefully, then no need for iRules then.