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DaytonG_131489
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Oct 09, 2013

Serve maintenance page if file exists

We are hoping to let our developers control turning on maintenance pages for their sites. We were hoping that we could check for the existence of a file in (or outside) the application to determine w...
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Oct 09, 2013

You could use an HTTP monitor and configure the 'Send String' to do an HTTP get on a file, /up.txt for example. Then configure 'Receive Disable String' with whatever you put in the up.txt file to indicate that the server should be marked down.

 

For your maintenance page, you can specify a 'Fallback Host' in the HTTP profile you've associated with the virtual server. This is the page that users will be presented with in the event that no pool members attached to the virtual server are available.