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Joel_45259
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Oct 03, 2007

How to change active member in the pool without losing sessions?

Hello, We have virtual server with 2 members in a pool where only other member at a time is active. When changing the active member, active sessions should still use the original member and the ne...
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hoolio
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Oct 03, 2007
Hi Joel,

 

 

Are you disabling sessions on one member of the pool and then seeing requests sent to the pool member that is disabled? If the client does not present a persistence cookie and the pool member is disabled, the request should be re-load balanced.

 

 

The only case I could see this not happening in is if the client is making multiple HTTP requests over the same TCP connection. Can you add a OneConnect profile to the virtual server and retest?

 

 

Thanks,

 

Aaron