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rluyster
Nimbostratus
Nimbostratusstruggling with "action on service down"
We are running an appliction that is load-balanced over 2 servers. The problem that I am having is that due to the nature of this application, if one of the servers fails, it is impossible for them to...
Great suggestion, mgabaldon, to use persistence data with the LB::status command. For HTTP, you'd probably want to do that test for each request by leveraging the HTTP_REQUEST event.
If you're going to implement the iRule approach, Rick, to answer your question 2, you'd want to set Action on Service Down to "None" so it doesn't interfere with the iRule response.
We used this post for the DC Post of the Week this week and discussed a number of other relevant details, so I'll post back with the link when it's published.
ciao
/deb
