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Formater
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Jan 27, 2011

How send a string to a specific IP's specific port when all pool members of a VIP are down?

I have a customer who has a pool, which includes there pool members. They want to send some special string in TCP to a specific IP's specific port when all the members of this pool are down. For examp...
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hoolio
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Jan 27, 2011
[LB::server] and [LB::server pool] will return the virtual server's default pool name until a load balancing decision has been made. Once a load balancing decision has been made, [LB::server] will return a Tcl list with pool, node addr and port.

 

 

I think it was Unruley who pointed this out originally a while back. It makes for a simple way to avoid having to hard code the default pool name in iRules.

 

 

Aaron