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Operator_16816
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Jan 05, 2012

Maintenance page - hosted on LTM or redirect with fallback host - or both?

I'm in the process of implementing an automated maintenance page that is displayed when I have a pool with no healthy members. Looking around, I see two distinct methods of doing this - utilizing the...
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hooleylist
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Jan 05, 2012
Hosting the content on LTM has the advantage of avoiding the need for an external hosting site. In 11.1, you can simplify the storage of the static content on LTM using iFiles:

 

 

Jason Rahm's Article on iFiles - External File Access via iRules

 

http://devcentral.f5.com/Tutorials/TechTips/tabid/63/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/1086514/v111ndashExternal-File-Access-from-iRules-via-iFiles.aspx

 

 

On the other hand, if you did want to host the content externally and use a fallback host, you should be able to still include the retry logic on that external site.

 

 

Aaron