My stick session

[AlexS_yb]

Hi

The system has multiple tomcat stype containers, they provide a JSESSIONID and we append a node id to the end

so we have a JSESSION id that looks like

JSESSIONID=83987345.nodeX where X could 1 2 3 4 5

on my nginx setup i had

 server app1.env:XXXX slow_start=0s weight=1 max_fails=0 fail_timeout=10 route=node1;

 server app2.env:XXX slow_start=0s weight=1 max_fails=0 fail_timeout=10 route=node2;

  # Session Persistence based on JSESSION ID, if necessary

  sticky route $route_cookie;

# jboss mapping for nodes

map $cookie_jsessionid $route_cookie {

  ~.+\.(?P<route>\w+)$ $route;

}

I want to do this in F5 i presume with F5.

But ... the persistence model in F5 break my nginx setup.

so

client A -> connect talks to node1

JSESSIONID 123456789.node1

node1 dies

client A -> get rerouted to node2

JSESSIONID 123456789.node1...

JSESSIONID 987654321.node1

note 100% sure if the jsessionid changes or not. but i'm 100% sure that the nodeX stays the same

until node1 comes back client gets routed to node2

once node1 comes back the client is routed back to node1

I presume irule.

but how do I say go to pool member if its up otherwise go to pool (use the balancing method)

[Dario_Garrido]

Hello Alex.

You could configure an iRule that routes traffic base on the "nodeX" value of the JSESSIONID cookie, checking first if this specific member is UP using "active_members" command.

https://clouddocs.f5.com/api/irules/active_members.html

Config details.

• Create an iRule
• create a generic pool with all members
• create specific pools with only one member (let say, node1, node2, ...)

iRules steps:

1. Get the "nodeX" value.
2. if "[active_members pool_nodeX] == 0" use generic pool
3. if "[active_members pool_nodeX] > 0" use specific pool (pool_nodeX)

Hope this helps you.

Regards,

Dario.

[AlexS_yb]

thanks i will check that out

[xuwen]

pool_node1 member 10.1.1.10:80 monitor tcp

pool_node2 member 20.1.1.20:80 monitor tcp

pool_default member 10.1.1.10:80 20.1.1.20:80 monitor tcp

iRuels code:

when RULE_INIT {

  array set static::pool_array {

    1 pool_node1

    2 pool_node2

  }

}

when HTTP_REQUEST {

  if { [HTTP::cookie exists "JSESSIONID"] } {

    set node_x [findstr [HTTP::cookie "JSESSIONID"] "node" 4 1]

    log local0. "node_x is $node_x"

    if { [active_members [lindex [array get static::pool_array $node_x] 1]] == 0 } {

      pool pool_default

    } else {

      pool [lindex [array get static::pool_array $node_x] 1]

    }

  } else {

    pool pool_default

  }

}

[AlexS_yb]

Think I like this. but modified

I will create singleton pools for each member and 1 pool with all members.

then

if I have no JSESSIONID or no NODE

then go to the generic pool

other wise

test to see if pool with 1 node corresponding to the NODE1 is available

if yes then send it

if no then send to generic pool