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Sarnoth_81568
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Aug 01, 2008

LB::reselect problem

Let me give you some background before I get in to the problem.   We have a web application that uses session replication. A node can fail in such a way that it always return 5xx error pages. We ...
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dennypayne
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Apr 23, 2009
If session state is replicated and no re-try is necessary, what about just this: 

 
 when HTTP_RESPONSE {  
    if { [HTTP::status] eq "503" } {  
      LB::down  
    }  
  }

in combination with a reverse health monitor that watches for 503's as well? Basically the same thing as before minus the reselect, which will effectively get done anyway.

Denny