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Willy's avatar
Willy
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Aug 22, 2017

universal persistence, irules & persist uie command

I am still a bit confused on using universal persistence and the persist command. The big question is :"Can the command persist [add] uie be used in a standard iRule, or does the iRule in which the c...
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Stanislas_Piro2's avatar
Stanislas_Piro2
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Aug 22, 2017

Hi,

persist uie
/ 
persist add uie
can be used on a standard irule or by a Universal persistence profile.

  • persist uie
    • is used in client side event (ex : HTTP_REQUEST)
    • read persistence record to select pool member if record exists
    • create a persistence record after member is selected
  • persist add uie
    • is used in server side event (ex : HTTP_RESPONSE)
    • create a persistence record based on server response