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NimbostratusTemporary reroute of web traffic
We are doing break/fix on a server that will include a reboot. Server admins are asking us to confirm that all web requests will be routed to a secondary server during the change window. Once we are...
Step 4 of your solution may be avoided by setting your pool to "action on service down" to "reset".
OneConnect may help as well (applies to virtual servers with SSL-termination and http-profile only!) to reroute traffic in case the poolmember becomes unavailable.
The elite of DC has spoken but I just wanted to add a small note on OneConnect. It's an awesome feature but you should be aware of some things if the following conditions are true:
- You are not source NAT:ing your traffic already
- You depend on source IPs in your server logs (most people do)
- You want to enable OneConnect
Then make sure that the X-Forwarded-For headers are inserted on the F5 and that the servers can read them. Otherwise you'll see some strange traffic patterns in the server logs. 🙂
More about XFF here:
https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K4816
Kind regards,
Patrik