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Robert_Fish_235
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Oct 19, 2017

Selective Priority Group Activation

My question:

 

I have a set-up in which a pool contains 8 members:

 

  • 4 at priority level 1 and
  • 4 at priority level 2

I want traffic to be directed to the primary members (priority level 2) until the point at which there is only 1 member remaining (judged dead by a health monitor). At this point I want traffic to be routed entirely to priority level 1 pool members and not at all to the last remaining level 2 member.

 

I looked at Priority Group Activation, but this seems to start supplementing priority level 2 members with members from the lower priority pool... rather than switching all traffic to the lower priority pool at a specified point.

 

I do not want to set the Priority Group Activation "Less than 1", which would leave me with only 1 server in priority group 2; would result in all traffic flowing through a single box.

 

Using priority group activation appears to mix traffic between separate priority groups - I want to use one or another... but switch to the lower priority entirely at a specific point.

 

Any help appreciated

 

Any help in posting would be appreciated.

 

  • Hi Guy,

     

    1- Do not change priority group activation, use as is(Less than two).

     

    2- Create 4 specific monitor for each member of Level two. Set Alias address to its own server address in each monitor(you can see Monitor->Configuration->Advanced).

     

    3- Add all monitor(you created above) to all Level 2 Members. Set "Availability Requirement" as At Least...' '2' Health Monitor(s)

     

    After this config, If 3 members of level 2 go down, then 4th member is also marked down, and new traffic is not redirected to any member of level 2 at this stiaution. That is it.