NimbostratusPool member showing as force disabled after only setting the session enabled state to disabled
I am trying to set a pool member to simply be disabled by setting the session enabled state to disabled. For some odd reason, using either the deprecated set_session_enabled_state or the current set_member_session_enabled_state, when I set the session state to disabled and then check the session status it shows as force disabled.
Values before setting session enabled state:
get_member_session_status: SESSION_STATUS_ENABLED
get_member_monitor_status: MONITOR_STATUS_UP
Immediately after calling set_member_session_enabled_state to disable the pool member:
get_member_session_status: SESSION_STATUS_FORCED_DISABLED
get_member_monitor_status: MONITOR_STATUS_UP
I thought the status would only be FORCE_DISABLED when both monitor and session state were set to disabled? Is there something else I am missing that would cause it to have that status?
I am using iControl .Net API library v 11.5.0.0 and our F5 is BIG-IP 11.4.0 Build 2434.0 Hotfix HF6
Thanks!
This is a bit gray for me as well, as I do not understand the difference between SESSION_STATUS_DISABLED(which I don't think I have ever seen) and SESSION_STATUS_FORCED_DISABLED, but it should work as you expect and be equivalent to a Disable state in the gui(allow persistent connections but not new ones)
I think the common confusion is thinking FORCED_DISABLED is equivalent to the gui Forced Offline. Both the monitor and the session must be down to be Forced Offline(only active connections)
