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ejknight_293275
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Jun 26, 2018

Marking a pool member down and drain connection by looking for a file

I have a need to set up the following process:   1- Have LTM look for a specific file on a server 2- If that file is not present the following should happen- 1. Server be taken out of the rota...
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I_R_101_110's avatar
I_R_101_110
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Jun 26, 2018

You are likely looking for the built in LTM SMB monitor.

 

There are also LTM external monitors in which you can use your own custom scripted tools (curl/ftp/API calls) to verify file existence.

 

As for the action to take upon the chosen monitors failure - this is handled by the action on down setting on the pool described in the below white paper. I believe the default behavior of none will suit your purposes but take a look:

 

https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K15095