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AVF_7351
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Jun 22, 2010

Stateless session persistence

Hi,     I'm trying to set up session persistence in such a way that it doesn't depend on a state table in LTM. This is so that persistence will work when a client moves to a different LTM, when...
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hoolio
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Jun 23, 2010
I think F5's perspective on using the persist command with explicit node or pool member selection is that the iRule should handle the persistence if it's handling the load balancing. So I think it will be a bit of an uphill battle to get the LTM behavior changed. You can manually set a cookie for persistence when you're manually selecting a pool member following the logic outline in this post:

 

 

http://devcentral.f5.com/Forums/tabid/1082223/asg/50/showtab/groupforums/afv/topic/aff/5/aft/1166691/Default.aspx1166717

 

 

As for UIE persistence in an iRule or a profile, I'm not aware of any functional differences. You don't need to add a UIE persistence profile in order to use a persist uie command.

 

 

For the persist cookie insert command, the only available options are 'persist cookie insert < name > < timeout > ' where is optional < timeout >.

 

 

Aaron