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Roman_80473
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Jun 29, 2011

restart pool member from iRule?

Hi folks,     I need to restart a pool member from inside an iRule (using LTM 9.4.8). I detect if a node is down, take it out of the mix, and resend the traffic. That part is working. However, I...
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Jun 29, 2011
Colin,

 

Thank you for speedy response. Since I don't know how to create a SOAPRequest inside iRule, I use a REST-ful webservice which can be invoked via HTTP/HTTPS like this:

 

http://host.company.com:port/servicename?action=restart&host=host_ip&user=jdoe&passwd=passwd&retry=3, etc. Webservice should restart a server and send back a status. That's pretty much it.

 

 

Thanks Roman