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Ken_Meade_51669
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Sep 22, 2009

pool-member control question

I'm sure this is simple but I can't find it for the life of me...

 

 

1 pool and 2 members, round-robin and Priority groups used .... pool-member1=2 : pool-member2=1, priority group activation = less-then 1.

 

 

If pool-member1 goes down this if fine traffic goes to pool-member2, when pool-member1 returns to service I want to keep the traffic pointing to pool-member2 and not return to pool-member1...is this possible via GUI config..?

 

 

9.4.7 build 320.1 final

 

 

Many thanks for responses
  • Do you want current traffic to point to Pool_member2 and new traffic to go to Pool_member1 when pool_member1 comes up?

     

     

    CB

     

  • It sounds like you want single node persistence:

     

     

    http://devcentral.f5.com/Wiki/default.aspx/iRules/SingleNodePersistence.html Click here
  • i basically don't want the traffic to start using pool-member1 when it becomes available again, i.e.

     

    pool-member1 active

     

    pool-member1 down ---> pool-member2 active

     

    pool-member1 up ---> pool-member2 active (no traffic to pool-member1)

     

    pool-member2 down ---> pool-member1 active

     

    pool-member2 up ----> pool-member1 active

     

    pool-member1 down ---> pool-member2 active

     

    pool-member1 up ----> pool-member2 active

     

    etc...
  • single node persistence sounds like what I'm after thanks I'll try to implement that today and see how it goes.