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uni
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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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hoolio
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May 26, 2011
I think Michael was suggesting that you create a pool and monitor without referencing the pool on a virtual server. This would allow you to monitor the pool member but not send any traffic to it. You could then check the state of the pool member using LB::status or of the pool using active_members:

 

 

http://devcentral.f5.com/wiki/default.aspx/iRules/lb__status

 

http://devcentral.f5.com/wiki/default.aspx/iRules/active_members

 

 

Aaron