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jotaeme33
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May 16, 2018

LB::status behavior

Hi everyone,   In an irule, when a node is set to "forced offline", the LB::status return "DOWN".   There is a way to difference the status of a node between "forced offline" and "down" because...
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youssef1's avatar
youssef1
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May 16, 2018

Hi Jose,

Your behaviour is normal, you have to set your node to disable an not force offline if you want to diferency this 2 status.

You can have 4 differents status:

  • up
  • down
  • session_enabled
  • session_disabled

If your node is down or you force it to "forced offline" it will mark down too. If your node is disable it will mark "session_disabled". ...

Check this article it will helpfull for you:

https://devcentral.f5.com/codeshare/site-maintenance-trigger

Irule example with node disable...

when HTTP_REQUEST {
set maintenance_mode [LB::status node 192.168.250.1 session_disabled]
if { ($maintenance_mode) } {
    HTTP::redirect "http://alternate.site.com/maintenance.html"
} 
}

Let me now if it's clear for you.

Regards