Forcing Priority Group Usage

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When I was searching though priority group posts, I founf a refernce someone made to an iRule that will force incoming connections back from the secondary server when the primaries come back up.  Here is what I mean&nbsp;
&nbsp;sticky = sourceIP 10 min&nbsp;
&nbsp;lb method = least conn&nbsp;
&nbsp;Pool webapp
&nbsp;    appserver1              priority 10
&nbsp;    appserver2              priority 10
&nbsp;    appserver3              priority 10
&nbsp;    SorryPage server     priority1&nbsp;
&nbsp;So when all is good, users get the appservers.  When they appservers go down they get the SorryPage server.  Problem is, when they appservers come back up, they have to timeout to the Sorrypage server, then they get the appservers.&nbsp;
&nbsp;Since I do not care about breaking the connection to Sorrypage as its static and does not require login, stickiness, etc, I want an iRule that will force connections back the higher priority servers immediately as the monitors mark them active.&nbsp;
&nbsp;I know I can do this with a pool redirect if I move the sorrypage server, but I dont want to rebuild everything for all the VSs.  Anyone got this?&nbsp;

hooleylist · Answer

Hi Valentine, 
  
 If you only want to use the sorry server(s) when the virtual server's default pool has no members, you can use an iRule like the one below.  The VS pool will be checked on each HTTP request instead of per connection like you see with priority group activation.  Update sorry_pool to the name of a second pool you create containing the sorry server(s).

when CLIENT_ACCEPTED {

Save the name of the VS default pool
set default_pool [LB::server pool]
}
when HTTP_REQUEST {
 Check if the VS default pool has any active members
if {[active_members $default_pool]}{
pool $default_pool
} else {
pool sorry_pool
}
}

Aaron

valentine_96813 · Answer

Thank you for your reply.  However, I really do not want to want to redirect to another pool if I can help it.  I would really like to see the iRule that references the priority group number and forces connectivity to the higher level members.

hooleylist · Answer

Is there a reason you don't want to use two separate pools?  I think the above iRule is probably simpler than using priority group activation.  You might want to explicitly disable persistence for the sorry_pool using persist none.  If you're using persistence for the default pool, you'd want to also enable it using the persist command. 
&nbsp;  
&nbsp; You can't kill a different active connection from an iRule which is executing for a different connection.  But you could affect which server is selected for the current connection.  We discussed a similar scenario in this thread: 
&nbsp;  
&nbsp; http://devcentral.f5.com/Community/GroupDetails/tabid/1082223/asg/50/aft/1178810/showtab/groupforums/Default.aspx 
&nbsp;  
&nbsp; Aaron

baron_of_strath · Answer

I have just created this and tested. It is not the cleanest of code but it does work reliably. Perhaps someone with a better programming know-how can tweak it.&nbsp;when CLIENT_ACCEPTED { backup node Requires the IP Address - Couldn't find a variable for the lower priority node ip set backup_node "172.29.2.95" interval is in milliseconds 60 is very aggressive set interval 60 min is a minimum number of servers to be in the pool while allowing connection to this object. set min 1 set DEBUG 1&nbsp; scan [LB::select] %s%s%s%s%d command current_pool command2 current_member current_port  
 eval [LB::select]

if { $DEBUG equals 1 } {log local0. "Pool Member Selected $current_member"}Start Conditional  if { $current_member equals $backup_node } {
    after $interval -periodic {
      if { [active_members $current_pool] &gt; $min } {
         if { $DEBUG equals 1 } {log local0. "Resetting connection"}
         TCP::close
      }
      else
      {
        log local0. "Number of active members in $current_pool [active_members $current_pool]"
      }
    }
 }
 else { log local0. "Sent to primary node $current_member"}Close Conditional - only run when connected to backup Send user to the selected member - This will ALWAYS be the one active priority group member  pool $current_pool}&nbsp;

baron_of_strath · Answer

Forgot to say that the pool consists of 2 objects and there is a reject on service down set on the pool. The use case was an HL7 app which needed to be forced to stick to the primary and which holds connections open indefinitely and which incurs great delays if the tcp stream is passively dropped due to node failure.

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