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-...
Updated Jun 06, 2023
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Cumulonimbus
CumulonimbusWhat 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.