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James_Price_485
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Jun 02, 2016

upgrade from 11.6 to 12.0 breaks persistence

This irule works in 11.6 but does not in version 12.0. The persistence is supposed to get set when the database is known. This occurs on the first request to the server. My understanding is that cook...
application delivery
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ekaleido
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Aug 17, 2016

Go into your cookie persistence profile and DISABLE the HTTPonly attribute. This became enabled by default in 12.0 and has been a thorn in my side in the past.

 

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    James_Price
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    Aug 17, 2016

    I'll give the httponly attribute a shot but i have to wait for a downtime to test. It maybe a couple of weeks before I can find out for sure. Thanks

     

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    James_Price
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    Aug 30, 2016

    Further analysis of the ltm log file showed that the servers members were constantly going up and down. I switched the monitor from http to gateway_icmp and the problem went away. Something strange about the http monitor. The origional problem of persistence is not a problem in seems to be with the monitor.