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AlanRod
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May 24, 2019

How to display maintenance page when server is down (redirect web traffic)?

Good day,   For a specific client we require, from the BIG-IP side, to redirect/show a maintenance page while a server(node) is unavailable. I found this article which I think it could help us ht...
application delivery
iRules
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Samir's avatar
Samir
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May 25, 2019

Try below iRule, which will you to solve issue.

when LB_FAILED {
if { [active_members POOL-NAME] < 1 } {
# Log and direct the client to Maintenance Page
HTTP::respond 200 content {
      <html><head><title>Apology Page</title></head><body>
<center>    We are sorry, but the site you are looking for is temporarily under maintenance.<br>
            ----------- <br>
            Please try after sometime or contact your system administator</center> 
         </body></html>
                 }
         }
}

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    AlanRod
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    May 27, 2019

    Good day Samir,

     

    Thanks for your help.

     

    We used the iRule and changed "POOL-NAME" with our client's Pool, applied the iRule to our client's Virtual Server but when disabling our client's Node (for testing purposes) the Apology Page does not load. Is there something we are missing?

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      Samir
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      May 27, 2019

      Just forcefully disable node. It will work..​