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Jorge_Cabanilla
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Jul 22, 2010

How to count or log the rejected requests when pool is unavailable F5 is sending RST

HI ,     I have a connection limit in the nodes of a pool, so whenever the F5 decides to send an RST packet to the client when the pool is marked as unavailable, the F5 is not logging anywhere t...
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Hamish
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Jul 23, 2010
Yeah... Try not to log each drop, or else you risk performing a DOS on yourself when load goes above some lower value that it would otherwise fail at...

 

 

If you do log yourself, keep a counter and then use the after -periodic {} command to do the actual logging even X seconds... Or keep the value in a stats column and poll it via SNMP/iControl.