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May 25, 2011

iRule to act on external events

I have a customer who wishes to redirect requests to their site depending on the existence of a flag file within their site. I can create a cron job or external monitor to test for the existence of th...
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May 26, 2011
Posted By David Windeyer on 05/25/2011 02:38 AM

 

You could put a health monitor on a dummy node that hits the file and then use LB::status to see if it is up.

 

I like this, but how would I stop the dummy node from receiving client requests?