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NimbostratusLTM Monitor to force server status down and terminate all connections
LTM ver 10.2.3
I need to create a monitor that will look for a file on a server in the pool. The monitor will mark the server down and terminate all connections to the server. While this sounds pretty simple, so far I have not found any examples or a doc on how to complete this. I am still looking...
So basically when an application owner needs to do maintenance on a server, they will just copy this file to the server. We cannot allow these app owners access to the gui.
Any assistance here is greatly appreciated.
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Cory_50405Noctilucent
How do you want to check for the existence of the file? SMB? FTP? Here are a couple of examples of these two if you want to go this route:
https://devcentral.f5.com/wiki/AdvDesignConfig.FTP-file-Existence-verification.ashx
https://devcentral.f5.com/questions/health-monitor-to-check-file-on-server
You'd want to configure the 'Action on Service Down' on your pool to 'Reselect'.
Reselect: Specifies that the system manages established client connections by moving them to an alternative pool member when monitors mark the original pool member down.
Bill_113656Thanks! I will try the ftp option you mention.
