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Wahezu_23937
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Jul 06, 2015

Virtual Server even when default pool is down when iRule is assigned.

Hi,   We are configuring GTMs to load balance two DCs and I am facing an issue as VS never goes down then they have an iRule assigned even though the pool associated is down. We want to rely on iQ...
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Dan_Pacheco's avatar
Dan_Pacheco
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Nov 16, 2017

If you use a Traffic Policy instead of an iRule on v12.1.2 you don't get the same behavior as the irule. The VS goes down even if the path-match pool is up. I have successfully tested. Hopefully F5 doesn't screw it up in a new OS version to make Traffic Policies more like iRules.