Brian_11882
Mar 17, 2011Nimbostratus
LB on hash key with onloading and offloading
Hi,
I'm a complete newbie for F5, so I hope my question makes sense. We would like to load balance on a pre-hashed cookie value. The value is hashed using a proprietary (i.e. Oracle) hashing algorithm. We can store the hashed value as a cookie, and we'd like to select a server from that cookie value without further hashing.
Furthermore, we'd like to be able to implement multiple states for a member for gracefully rolling down and up servers during application redeployment. The four states we would like to specify for a server are:
Up: The server receives all requests designated to it by the pre-hashed cookie value.
Down: The server does not receive any requests
Starting: The server only receives connections from new http sessions (i.e. no JSESSIONID) designated to it by the pre-hashed cookie value, and subsequent connections from the same session.
Stopping: The server only receives connections from existing sessions that were previously designated to the member.
Do I need to use iRules to implement this type of strategy? Any tips on what it would look like?
Brian