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Senthil_7991
Nimbostratus
NimbostratusWhen disabled POOL member - How servers are receiving traffic
Hi,
We recently disabled one of the pool member on F5 LTM, another POOL member is still on active, but customer on server side still receiving traffic from this disabled POOL.
how the appli...
Stanislas_Piro2
Cumulonimbus
CumulonimbusHi,
When you want to disable pool member for a scheduled operation, you can disable it several hours / minutes before operation.
In this case:
- every clients already connected are still connecting to the same server preventing session break. --> persistence bypass LB reselect.
- every unknown client are not balanced to disable members.
when operation starts, the number of clients on disabled members is less than active members. This is the expected behavior for most of customers.
If you want to disable and force LB reselect for persistent connections, you can use
force offlinedisableForce offline