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Matthew_Goche_6
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May 12, 2006

Virtual Server responds to health checks

Hi. I currently have a configuration where a device upstream from my BIG-IP 6400 is doing health checks against the BIG-IP. I also want the health checks to fail if my virtual server is showing down...
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JRahm
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May 12, 2006
This works quite well on new connection requests:


when CLIENT_ACCEPTED {
  if { [active_members MyPool] == 0 } {
    discard
  }
}

We use this for our Global load balancer communication to our BigIP (it is not an F5 product, yet)