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Albert_Coll's avatar
Feb 07, 2022
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Irule to modify the VIP route advertisement setting upon pool down

Hi, I have an Big-IP LTM in which I need to create a procedure to set a VIP "route advertisement" setting to "disabled" whenever a pool goes down. I think that this can be achieved by an iRule.  Do...
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    Jim_Schwartzme1
    Feb 08, 2022

    What you could do is create a gateway monitor and give it an Alias Address of the gwy. Assign that to the pool as a second monitor that is the default pool of the virtual server the vip address is assigned to. That way, when the gwy fails, it marks the pool members down which in turn will retact the advertisment of the route.