ACE 4710 - In server farm can I keep one rserver out of rotation until an active rserver in same server farm fails?

[drew mcclellan]

Want to Layer 2 span two server farm sites with rservers in same server farm at each but only want one site's rservers active at a time.

[pablo.nxh · Accepted solution]

Hi Drew,

You would do this under the first-match policy if stickiness is not in place, like this:

policy-map type loadbalance first-match LB

  class class-default

  serverfarm Client-1 backup Client-1-Backup

In the other hand if you're using a sticky for your SFs then it would look like this:

sticky ip-netmask 255.255.255.255 address source AP-1

  timeout 60

  serverfarm Client-1 backup Client-1-Backup

- Apply it normally under the policy

policy-map type loadbalance first-match LB

  class class-default

  sticky-serverfarm AP-1

Checking again post's subject you may also want failover under the serverfam itself so the config is below

serverfarm host Client-1

  probe HTTP

  rserver Primary

    backup-rserve Secondary

    inservice

  rserver Secondary

    inservice standby

HTH

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Pablo

[drew mcclellan]

Thank you Pablo

I’ll try this