iRules Recipe 4: Static Maintenance Page

The Problem You wish to provide a static maintenance splash page when all members of a pool serving a Virtual Server are currently down or disabled. The Configuration # cat /var/tmp/splash-...
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I am an F5 Solutions Architect for Service Providers in the Americas, focusing on Virtualization, SP protocols (Diameter, GTP, DNS) and programmability. Prior to joining F5, I worked as a Wi-Fi Network Engineer for a large U.S. public University, as an Operations Engineer, a network management Software Engineer, and as a Technical Trainer.
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Nov 16, 2016

Would probably be better still to just exclude the if statement and return the maintenance page on LB_FAILED. Although there could be a use case for acting differently based on why LB_FAILED was triggered.

 

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