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jsishodia
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Jun 24, 2021

Virtual Server with manual fall back to primary node

Hi Everyone   I want to configure a virtual server where 2 backend servers should be configured in active-standby (or failover) mode.   The scenario is like when server A goes down server B becom...
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Daniel_Wolf
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Jun 24, 2021

Hi jsishodia,

 

you could use a monitor using the Manual Resume feature. When you set this feature to enabled, you can make sure that  the pool member stays unavailable until you manually enable it.

If you combine this with Priority Group Activation, this should satisfy your requirements.

 

KR

Daniel

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    jsishodia
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    Jul 22, 2021

    Hi Daniel

     

    Apologies for the late reply.

     

    Yes, it fulfills the requirement but the only downside is we need to go on F5 whenever we have to enable back the server A.

     

    Thank you for your kind support.

     

    Warm regards

    JS