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Nimbostratus

Jan 06, 2015

Redirect to Another WebServer URL

Hi I am new to F5. We have F5 Load Balancer for Weblogic 2 Nodes Cluster. How can we redirect a request to other WebServer, if both Node of Weblogic is down ? Thanks.

nitass_89166
Jan 06, 2015
just in case you have not seen it.

sol6510: BIG-IP system fallback host behavior when a host is down

https://support.f5.com/kb/en-us/solutions/public/6000/500/sol6510.html

hari_126827

Cirrus

Jan 06, 2015

If I understand correctly, we require traffic to loadbalanced on weblogic node 1 (only) and if this node is down then the weblogic node 2 should be able to process traffic load.

For the above scenario, you could use Priority Group activation .. Please check the below thread: https://devcentral.f5.com/questions/priority-group-activation-why-use-it

Otherwise if we want to load balance w.r.t. load balancing method, then please see below link to decide the proper loadbalancing method suitable for the scenario:

https://support.f5.com/kb/en-us/products/big-ip_ltm/manuals/product/ltm_configuration_guide_10_0_0/ltm_pools.html

Bunnynew_181660
Nimbostratus
Jan 06, 2015
Thanks for reply. 2 Node Failover is defined, so if 1 node goes down, traffic is handled by 2nd node. What we want, if both nodes are down, then an another WebServer should process the request as Backup Server.
nitass
Employee
Jan 06, 2015
there is sample irule in sol6510.