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MrRichard's avatar
MrRichard
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Aug 13, 2013

How to create iRule to deliver an alternate page response other than 'page unavailable'

When we currently disable one of the virtual servers in our setup, we get an 'unable to display this page' message in the browser. Rather than this, we would like to display a maintenance page so tha...
application delivery
devops
iRules
management
Kevin_Stewart's avatar
Kevin_Stewart
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Aug 13, 2013

The problem is that you're disabling the virtual server. A disabled VIP isn't going to respond to any requests or evaluate any iRule events. A simple alternative would be to disable the pool members and use an active_member check in the CLIENT_ACCEPTED event.