Having .initialize issues

Deb, thank you. I think I will go your route as I'm struggling with the SOAP APIs in VB .Net as I'm not the most talented programmer in the tool shed. The power of the APIs are awesome but I'm taking too long to complete the overarching goal.

 

 

Couple questions regarding your suggestions:

 

 

1) It seems that if someone knows the URI the iRule is waiting for they could disable members without permission, correct? If so, how could I prevent this using the IIS server's NTLM authentication mechanism or another method?

 

 

2) We recently moved away the "Action on Service Down" from 'none' to 'reselect' as we thought it would help load balance away from faulty servers with less application interruption because the application state is kept in a SQL table not web server session object. Will marking the member 'down' as you mentioned drain stop the connections from the member like the 'disable' button does in the LTM's GUI? Or does is it stop connection on the members abruptly? At the pool member management level in the GUI, the 'disable' button works very nicely for our application.

 

 

Thanks again for everyone's time and effort in guiding me to a solution which fits our needs.

 

 

Wade