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player_72606
Nimbostratus
Nimbostratusicontrol as external monitor
Hi all
new to icontrol , please be gentle... :-)
a security policy requires that all VS that are offline or down should not respond to echo requests when it's pool members are dow...
samstep
Cirrocumulus
CirrocumulusThis is a very convoluted and time-consuming way of achieving your goal, but I think it is do-able.
Essentially you will need to check the status of the Virtual Address corresponding to the Virtual Server you are monitoring and disable ARP using set_arp_state() method:
http://devcentral.f5.com/wiki/default.aspx/iControl/LocalLB__VirtualAddress__set_arp_state.html
It might be easier to just disable ICMP completely using packet filters if it is OK with your security policy....
