maintenance page irule

cymru81 The reason your way isn't ideal is because you want the maintenance page to come up under specific circumstances rather than something that you have to log into the F5 and change every time you want it to display. If you base the maintenance page on status of pool members then it would always come up when the pool members are not available, a true maintenance or down situation, rather than it always being displayed which means anyone that goes to your website would see this page rather than the website unless you manually remove the iRule every time you want the page to go away.