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Dianna_129659
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Mar 05, 2014

Whitelist a user agent

We use Pingdom to alert us when our site is down. We also block most IP Addresses that are not within the United States (we do business only within the US). Is there a way that I can whitelist the Pi...
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Dianna_129659
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Mar 07, 2014

Solution: The iRule was correct and should have worked except that (I checked with an F5 engineer), it seems that there is no way in the configuration to bypass a violation if the geolocation matches and you are in blocking mode. I also learned that this was a problem with Pingdom's scheduling which caused Pingdom to ping us multiple times a minute.