Question on Cookie Persistance

1. If you aren't setting persistence within your iRule, the default persistence will be applied. However, if your iRule is configured to send certain requests directly to a pool member/node, the persistence might be ignored.

 

2. Since the cookie is stored on the client's machine, you'd want to check there to see whether it exists. If you want to validate that it's being honored, you'd either have to create an iRule to log requests, or simply test from a client machine and monitor the pool member to see where it's going.