Turning VS off when nodes down

Turning off the tcp port is a function of the vip being available or not (assuming it's a port-based vip) Member availability can mean different things based on your settings. If you have 4 members, and you have administratively disabled them, by default, the vip will still be available (ie, the tcp port is still responding) as long as the health monitors, if applied, are successful. This is because the default behavior of a pool member when disabled is changed from allow all traffic to allow active/persistence connections only. You need to change the setting on the pool member to allow active traffic only in order to get the virtual to a truly down state UNLESS the health monitors are all failing, in which case the virtual will be marked down.

 

 

Clear as mud?