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Nimbostratus

Jan 21, 2019

Direct traffic to maintenance page based on API call to external system

I would like to setup traffic redirection based on the response of an API call to an external application - a) If the API returns "true", the traffic will need to be directed to a static mainten...

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Kai_Wilke

MVP

Jan 22, 2019

Hi Joshy,

solving c.) with native health-monitors sounds challenging.

You would need an "External Monitor" script which CURLs your web service and then stores the current state in a text file as a fallback mechanism for the next probe.

https://devcentral.f5.com/articles/ltm-external-monitors-the-basics

https://devcentral.f5.com/codeshare?sid=395

Cheers, Kai

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