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croftwilliam_18
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Apr 23, 2009

Webpage redirect when system down

I am very new to Load Balancing. My only previous experience is with a CoyotePoint product   which was no where near as versatile as the F5 I have currently.     What I have set up. ...
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hoolio
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Apr 24, 2009
Hi William,

 

 

You could add an iRule which either sends a redirect to a sorry page hosted elsewhere, or sends an HTML response from the rule itself with the sorry content. For the former option you could either use the fallback host on an HTTP profile for the VIP or use HTTP::redirect (Click here). For the latter, you could use HTTP::respond (Click here). You can search the Codeshare (Click here) for "maintenance" to find a few examples.

 

 

Aaron