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emilhag_383852
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Feb 15, 2019

Mark a VS down when 1 pool member is down

Hello, I have seen other similar topics on this but still have not solved our issue, What we want to do is mark a VS down when any pool member goes down (we have 4 members). When this happens BGP f...
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Akeem
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Aug 08, 2019

Hello JG,

 

I've tried this using alias IP addresses plus setting the pool availability to 'at least 2', it doesn't appear to work. I forced one of the servers off-line, however the pool still stayed 'up'. I guess forcing the server off line is a suitable test. Once my colleague is available I can ask him to shut down the server, but not sure if this will make any difference. Have you tried this previously?

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    JG
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    Aug 09, 2019

    You don't need to wait for your app admin for any action on their side, for you can fake a monitor failure by modifying the monitors with a condition (e.g. a non-existent URL) so that the monitors will definitely fail.