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mlick2
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Mar 17, 2006

Downtime redirect

I am trying to figure out the best way to redirect an application when it is determined to be down. This unfortunately has to be a manual process in determining if the app is down or not. What we wo...
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JRahm
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Mar 17, 2006
Ok, sorry, misunderstood. Is the middleman a webserver? If so, you can use a reverse http monitor that is UP while the condition is NOT met. Configure the action on service down to reselect and you should be fine.


monitor my_http {
   defaults from http
   reverse
   recv "APPLICATION IS DOWN!"
   send "GET /yourpath/yourfile.txt"
}

Note that the send is the file that is there only when the app is down, and the recv is a string in the file that can be matched appropriately.