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John_43161
Nimbostratus
Sep 18, 2009maintenance and error pages
Hello!
I am posting to find out if there was some standard way, or best practice for handling down pools.
What I would like to do is if I take a pool/node down forward the user to some...
The_Bhattman
Nimbostratus
Sep 18, 2009Hi John,
There are several ways to approach this.
1) The simplest is through the HTTP Profile that you would assigned a virtual server that contains the pools. There is a specific setting called fallback host where you can define the link when serverside connection fails regardless of the health of the pool.
2) Another method is to apply a iRule that basically does the same action as fallback but under specific conditions such as the health of the pool and not a serverside connection failure.
3) Third way is to put up a iRule that allows you to throw up a "Undersconstruction" page based on maintenance. You can find several examples contained with this sites samples page
Here specific ones:
Click here, Click here, and Click here
Hope this helps
CB
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