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Mark_58201
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Dec 29, 2008

Redirect to another Website Irule Problem

I'm very new to writing iRules. We have BigIp's with v4.5.11 Build 147. What we would like to do is the following:   Two web servers are both down, or the backend database is down which is se...
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Dec 30, 2008
Aaron,

 

Thank for you the reply and information. I've been trying to get this to work with the fallback host info you gave me but have not had success. Within the pool, I set the Minimum Active Members field to 1 (we have 2 web server members). I then added the IP address of the the fallback web server, which is also on our dmz, to the Fallback Host field. So the scenario, as I understand it, would be for an outsider to go to www.mysite.com, whose nodes are both down because I unplugged them. The BigIp should then send the request to the ip addess fallback server xxx.xxx.xxx, and that page should be displayed. Unfortunately, all I get is "page cannot be displayed" and the url address field still shows the www.mysite.com address. I have a feeling that either I set something up wrong, or there may be a problem with the fallback server being on our dmz just as the original web servers are. Any insight into this would be appreciated. Thanks.

 

 

Mark