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suthomas1
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May 24, 2021

session outcome

Good day all,   In forcing a pool member down (pool has two members), what will result for existing user sessions to the member which will/is being made down. how is the expected behaviour from ...
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iaine
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May 24, 2021

Hi

 

This info can be found here - https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K13310

 

Pertinent points being...

 

When set to Disabled, a node or pool member continues to process persistent and active connections. It can accept new connections only if the connections belong to an existing persistence session.

 

When set to Forced Offline, a node or pool member allows existing connections to time out, but no new connections are allowed.

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    suthomas1
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    May 24, 2021

    What is the case when one of the member is not taken down by big-ip administrator, but one of the the actual member server is either shut down or is restarting? How will existing traffic to that member behave?