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cory_seaborn_17's avatar
cory_seaborn_17
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May 07, 2015

Cookie persistence via iRule

I've read a few articles about accomplishing this but nothing that has really suited my needs so far. At a high level, we have a 'shared' vserver that we use for multiple services. We load balance ...
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sfuerst_116779
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May 07, 2015

The persistence profile contains information about the persistence cookie. i.e. is it type Insert/Rewrite/Hash. Does it have a user-defined name? Is it encrypted? When does it expire?

 

The iRule command tells the BigIP to use cookie persistence... but it needs this extra information to actually do that. (You can pass some of these things via the persist iRule command, but not all.)