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danielo303_1961
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Feb 17, 2012

iRule: redirect to pool based on app response time?

I would like to use an iRule to direct traffic based on the response time of the back-end resource pool. Under normal operations, incoming requests (these are SOAP-based queries) will go to the primar...
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hooleylist
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Feb 20, 2012
You could use the after command in 10.0+ to set a timer and select a new pool if the currently selected server doesn't reply. I think you'd need to call LB::detach in the after script and then call the second pool using the pool command.

 

 

See the last example on the wiki page for details:

 

http://devcentral.f5.com/wiki/iRules.after.ashx

 

http://devcentral.f5.com/wiki/iRules.lb__detach.ashx

 

 

Aaron