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codyjohn
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Nov 12, 2014

Reference a pool name inside of an associated external monitor?

We have many similar pools, one per customer, with different ip:port combinations assigned to each of them. The pools are each named with a unique identifier for each customer, something like:   ...
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How about using RestAPI to list the members in each pool_${customer}? Then loop thru the members in each pool using curl to fetch page and check for the customer string.

 

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codyjohn
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Nov 12, 2014
Are you suggesting we have an external script that performs this? If so, how would we then mark a node as down if we don't find "${customer}" in the curl payload? Another API call? We are trying to implement a failsafe mechanism to ensure that the application server and the F5 are in agreement on what customer instance should be served by a particular ip:port combination, and that we never have an app node in the wrong customer pool. We have thousands of pools per F5 pair and want to figure out a simple and native (if possible) solution that can catch stuff quickly.