Real server: standby with probe

[thomascollins]

I have a serverfarm with two real servers.  I want one server to get 100% off the traffic, and the other server to only be used if server1 fails.  So I setup server1 as active, and server2 as active standby.  If server1 fails a probe, server2 should become active.  Here's my serverfarm config:

  serverfarm host my_srvfrm

  probe 1

  rserver server1

    inservice

  rserver server2

    inservice standby

But the problem is when the probe fails, server2 is still standby.  So I get no connectivity:

show serverfarm my_srvfrm

   Codes: L - local,   R - remote

serverfarm     : my_srvfrm, type: HOST

total rservers : 2

state          : INACTIVE

DWS state      : DISABLED

---------------------------------

                                                ----------connections-----------

       real                  weight state        current    total      failures

   ---+---------------------+-----+------------+----------+----------+---------

   rserver: server1

       10.10.151.193:0       8   PROBE-FAILED    1          39         12

   rserver: server2

       10.10.151.194:0       8   STANDBY         0          19         0

What's the best way to setup my serverfarm for this scenerio?  (server1 gets all traffic, unless probe fails, then server2 gets all traffic)

Thanks

[Ahmad Basel Jaber · Accepted solution]

Hi Thomas,

You need to use the backup-rserver command to acheive what you are looking for. Your configuration should look like:

serverfarm host my_srvfrm

  probe 1

  rserver server1

  backup-rserver server2

    inservice

  rserver server2

    inservice standby

Best regards,

Ahmad

[thomascollins]

Perfect, that did the trick, thank you