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Paul_Brand_2026's avatar
Paul_Brand_2026
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May 10, 2017

Inserting a Data Centre Cookie

Hi All, Hoping someone can give a bit of guidance with an iRule. I have a customer who has two data centres. With LTM active/standby pair in each. In addition to the F5 cookie insert for session ...
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JG's avatar
JG
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May 11, 2017

Why not simply:

For DC1:

when HTTP_RESPONSE {
    HTTP::cookie insert name DtCntPrstc value "DtCnt1"
}

For DC2:

when HTTP_RESPONSE {
    HTTP::cookie insert name DtCntPrstc value "DtCnt2"
}

for you don't seem to really need to care about an incoming cookie, right?

Or is it that you need to provide a DC ID to the backend application servers in the very first client request?