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Joe_Curl_105786
Nimbostratus
NimbostratusHTTP Redirect When Pool is down
I would like to craft an iRule that detects the pool assigned to the VIP has all members down. When it is down then do an http redirect to our site down web server. I have rules in place where I ca...
Torti
Cirrus
Cirrusthere are many ways to rome ;-)
if you do a lot of irule stuff, I would say, it is more efficient to check for a reachable backend before. So you can save some resources on f5. Especially, if you running ASM, too.
So, the request will be blocked at the beginning and will not run through a security policy before it get an redirect. But Im not 100% shure, if the security policies comes before LB_FAILED. I didn't find a picture over all the events, only this nice one:
But I agree, LB_Failed is much more powerful than a simple pool member check.
