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Nimbostratustmsh to show pool members connection stats for FQDN member?
NimbostratusPerhaps I should add - what I'm trying to do is script a 'drain stop' type thing; i.e. set a member to disabled (rather than force offline) and loop until the # of connections is 0.
MVPgneville If your intent is to drain the connections your script would need to reference the node nested in the FQDN pool member. On top of this, an issue that you might run into is you cannot disable an auto pool member nested under an FQDN. Your best bet in this instance would be to create an HTTP health monitor, if this is HTTP traffic, and use the receive string down so that the auto pool member can pull itself out of rotation rather than manually disabling pool members with a script. I recommend that whenever possible these application level health monitors should be used to disable the pool member so that you don't have to change anything on the F5 side of things. Having this in place allows the server admins to not be dependent on the F5 team to disable pool members.
Because of the shortcomings of FQDN pool members I never recommend using them because it causes more headaches than it solves for. I could be wrong on the part of disabling the auto pool members but last I checked you could not disable them without disabling the FQDN pool member.
