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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Dec 05, 2016

What we have done here is to have the CSS and images embedded in a single HTML ifile, with the images encoded in the base64 format. As mentioned above, do not get carried away with the content as this is just a functional maintenance notice and need not to be fancy; limit the size of the content to as small as possible.