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danielpenna
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Apr 30, 2015

iRule to delay traffic going to pool2 after pool1

Hi Team, Have been asked to provide a solution to assist with a DR scenario that I am scratching my head on.   The scenario is that in a DR event, a team needs 10 minutes to get a backend dat...
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Ed_Summers
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Apr 30, 2015

Are you using priority group activation or another method to switch between pools?

 

Could you simply monitor the status of pool2 using a health monitor that gets an object the pool member would need to 'fetch' from the back-end database server? Assuming that pool2 only has database connectivity after this 10-minute event occurs, the pool would be down until the database team finishes their work (regardless of the time it takes them).

 

Let me know if I mis-read your scenario. -Ed