# \#priority-group-activation

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## [Priority Group activation between 10 servers](https://community.f5.com/t/priority-group-activation-between-10-servers/74754)

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**Author:** [@Vshah](https://community.f5.com/u/Vshah)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [July 3, 2024, 1:02pm UTC](https://community.f5.com/t/priority-group-activation-between-10-servers/74754 "2024-07-03T13:02:29Z")

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Hi All, Is it possible to enable the priority group activation between 10 servers- condition is that at a time any one server should up, if it goes down any other one server become active and serve the request. Meaning …

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## [priority group activation](https://community.f5.com/t/priority-group-activation/72642)

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**Author:** [@igorzhuk](https://community.f5.com/u/igorzhuk)\
**Replies:** 10\
**Last updated:** [July 14, 2023, 3:40pm UTC](https://community.f5.com/t/priority-group-activation/72642 "2023-07-14T15:40:31Z")

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Hi all, I used f5 priority group activation When my pool member fail and the second pool member come to active the traffic forward to the lower group pool member, But when the higher pool member goes up, the active co…

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## [F5 Priority Group Activation \_ Fallback](https://community.f5.com/t/f5-priority-group-activation-fallback/53153)

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**Author:** [@Godwin\_S](https://community.f5.com/u/Godwin_S)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [September 5, 2021, 7:19am UTC](https://community.f5.com/t/f5-priority-group-activation-fallback/53153 "2021-09-05T07:19:12Z")

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Hi All, I am newbie learning F5 load-balancing. It would like to clarify one of my doubt in Priority Group Activation. Lets say I have below servers in a pool with Activation Number set to 2. S1 - 10 S2 - 9 S3 - 8 …

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## [Priority Group Activation Secondary Node](https://community.f5.com/t/priority-group-activation-secondary-node/53493)

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**Author:** [@AndyO](https://community.f5.com/u/AndyO)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [March 27, 2020, 4:16pm UTC](https://community.f5.com/t/priority-group-activation-secondary-node/53493 "2020-03-27T16:16:29Z")

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I want to keep all new and existing traffic on a secondary node after a failure and resumption of the primary. This is a very flaky application, however, so we would like to fail back to the primary if the secondary fail…

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## [Priority Group Activation/Destination Persistence](https://community.f5.com/t/priority-group-activation-destination-persistence/57661)

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**Author:** [@mbrandon32](https://community.f5.com/u/mbrandon32)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [July 26, 2018, 4:18am UTC](https://community.f5.com/t/priority-group-activation-destination-persistence/57661 "2018-07-26T04:18:05Z")

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Below is an example of what I am looking to achieve: Priority Group Activation enabled - less than 1 available member(s) Server1 - priority 2 Server2- priority 1 Server1 goes offline and all connections are now …

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## [PGA and Priority Group together.](https://community.f5.com/t/pga-and-priority-group-together/53864)

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**Author:** [@joulate](https://community.f5.com/u/joulate)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [November 21, 2017, 8:08pm UTC](https://community.f5.com/t/pga-and-priority-group-together/53864 "2017-11-21T20:08:08Z")

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Hello Folks, Having a doubt about PGA and Priority Groups on the pool members. As per the documentation you have to use the 2 together: “This setting is used in tandem with the pool feature known as priority group …

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## [Selective Priority Group Activation](https://community.f5.com/t/selective-priority-group-activation/22171)

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**Author:** [@Robert\_Fish\_235](https://community.f5.com/u/Robert_Fish_235)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [October 20, 2017, 12:15pm UTC](https://community.f5.com/t/selective-priority-group-activation/22171 "2017-10-20T12:15:21Z")

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My question: I have a set-up in which a pool contains 8 members: 4 at priority level 1 and 4 at priority level 2 I want traffic to be directed to the primary members (priority level 2) until the point at which th…

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## [Priority group activation - what if lowest priority group has less servers than the "less than" setting?](https://community.f5.com/t/priority-group-activation-what-if-lowest-priority-group-has-less-servers-than-the-less-than-setting/56468)

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**Author:** [@daboochmeister\_1](https://community.f5.com/u/daboochmeister_1)\
**Replies:** 4\
**Last updated:** [August 11, 2017, 7:02am UTC](https://community.f5.com/t/priority-group-activation-what-if-lowest-priority-group-has-less-servers-than-the-less-than-setting/56468 "2017-08-11T07:02:09Z")

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Say we have the following setup: Priority group 2: 4 servers Priority group 1: 2 servers Activation: less than 3 servers How will this behave when we lose 2 servers from priority group 2? At that point it will meet…

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## [Existing connections with Priority Group Activation - minimizing client impact, timeouts, etc.](https://community.f5.com/t/existing-connections-with-priority-group-activation-minimizing-client-impact-timeouts-etc/56426)

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**Author:** [@daboochmeister\_1](https://community.f5.com/u/daboochmeister_1)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [July 29, 2017, 3:35am UTC](https://community.f5.com/t/existing-connections-with-priority-group-activation-minimizing-client-impact-timeouts-etc/56426 "2017-07-29T03:35:00Z")

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Hi, we’re using PGA for an active/standby config, with an either/or relationship between the groups (activation set to \< 1 server). We’re finding that when the higher priority group is reactivated, existing connection…

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## [priority groups and priority group activation](https://community.f5.com/t/priority-groups-and-priority-group-activation/32238)

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**Author:** [@Nate83\_280180](https://community.f5.com/u/Nate83_280180)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [April 10, 2017, 12:51pm UTC](https://community.f5.com/t/priority-groups-and-priority-group-activation/32238 "2017-04-10T12:51:00Z")

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Hi, newbie here. I have a VS setup with 1 pool, that has 4 members. 2 members are set in a priority group with no.10, the other 2 in priority group with no.5. Priority group activation is set to Less than 1 available mem…

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## [LTM :: Active/Active pool member configuration](https://community.f5.com/t/ltm-active-active-pool-member-configuration/33204)

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**Author:** [@Sri\_2308\_282259](https://community.f5.com/u/Sri_2308_282259)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [August 5, 2016, 8:33pm UTC](https://community.f5.com/t/ltm-active-active-pool-member-configuration/33204 "2016-08-05T20:33:26Z")

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Hello, I would like to configure two priority groups each having 2 pool members (total 4 servers under the same pool). let us call them Group A & Group B and Group A has higher priority than group B. I know when all t…

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## [Question on Priority Group Activation](https://community.f5.com/t/question-on-priority-group-activation/12795)

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**Author:** [@MSK\_222682](https://community.f5.com/u/MSK_222682)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [April 13, 2016, 8:22am UTC](https://community.f5.com/t/question-on-priority-group-activation/12795 "2016-04-13T08:22:58Z")

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Hi, I want to make my virtual server with 9 pool member automatically disabled when four of its pool member are down. Can I achieve this with below settings : 1. Put all the pool members to the same priority group for…

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## [Priority Group Activiation all or nothing?](https://community.f5.com/t/priority-group-activiation-all-or-nothing/1745)

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**Author:** [@Jim\_Araujo\_1061](https://community.f5.com/u/Jim_Araujo_1061)\
**Replies:** 4\
**Last updated:** [October 28, 2015, 6:25pm UTC](https://community.f5.com/t/priority-group-activiation-all-or-nothing/1745 "2015-10-28T18:25:59Z")

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Quick question. If I have two priority groups with two servers each, and I have the activation of the lower priority priority group if less than 2 available. So we have this serverA and serverB are PrioirtyGroup 10, serv…

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## [Only send connections to server2 if connection limit reached on server1](https://community.f5.com/t/only-send-connections-to-server2-if-connection-limit-reached-on-server1/55222)

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**Author:** [@Michael\_Harwoo1](https://community.f5.com/u/Michael_Harwoo1)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [September 25, 2015, 9:07pm UTC](https://community.f5.com/t/only-send-connections-to-server2-if-connection-limit-reached-on-server1/55222 "2015-09-25T21:07:23Z")

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I have 4 HTTP web caching servers in a pool, and we want to try and increase the cache hit rate (likihood that it will have already cached the requested page) by focusing all connctions on one server until it reaches a h…

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## [Priority Activation settings](https://community.f5.com/t/priority-activation-settings/5616)

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**Author:** [@Joe\_Wiitala\_190](https://community.f5.com/u/Joe_Wiitala_190)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [March 5, 2015, 9:03pm UTC](https://community.f5.com/t/priority-activation-settings/5616 "2015-03-05T21:03:10Z")

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I have two servers in a pool and would like to keep them both active, but only one serving content. Looking at priority activation what value should I assign the server I’d like active, and what value should I assign the…
