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Steve_87971
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May 09, 2011

iRule to switch hostnames to www.

Hi all, this is my first post and I'm not an F5 legend so please bare with me if this is obvious.   Our customer facing websites are published with a full www URL - i.e. www.mycompany.com. This DN...
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Michael_Yates
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May 09, 2011
If both of your URL's are mapped to Virtual Servers on the same BigIP then each should point to a different pool of servers behind the same device.

 

 

If you need to take a set of servers / cluster of servers down for upgrades, maintenance, or patching you should just be able to change the destination pool for the traffic.

 

 

Virtual Server 1 - www.website.com - uses pool.www.website.com

 

Virtual Server 2 - backup.website.com - uses pool.backup.website.com

 

 

You could either change the destination pool for the first website from pool.www.website.com to pool.backup.website.com or you could use some other methods like Priority Activation Groups or Maintenance Page iRules.

 

 

Would any of these be possible for you?