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 18, 2016

There are limitations with LB_FAILED, for the ifile must be short enough to fit in one data packet (sol9456: Using the HTTP::respond iRule command in the LB_FAILED event may result in truncated responses).

 

Also it might be appropriate to use the "503" HTTP status code in the response; search engines will not index the maintenance message with that.