Michael McNamara https://blog.michaelfmcnamara.com technology, networking, virtualization and IP telephony Sat, 30 Oct 2021 18:34:51 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 A10 Application Delivery Controller – inservice standby https://blog.michaelfmcnamara.com/2014/12/a10-application-delivery-controller-inservice-standby/ Wed, 03 Dec 2014 15:30:47 +0000 http://blog.michaelfmcnamara.com/?p=4655 I recently needed to place a real server on an A10 AX3200-12 load-balancer service group into standby mode similar to the “inservice standby” on a Cisco ACE 4710.  Here’s what the service group configuration looked like on the A10;

slb service-group SG_STORE-HTTP tcp
 member RS_STORE-WEB1:8080
 member RS_STORE-WEB2:8080
 member RS_STORE-WEB3:8080

While there is no “inservice standby” command you can change the priority of the member which will provide the equivalent result on the real server in the service-group. The higher the value the more preferred a real server.

slb service-group SG_STORE-HTTP tcp
 member RS_STORE-WEB1:8080
 member RS_STORE-WEB2:8080 priority 16
 member RS_STORE-WEB3:8080 priority 16

Here’s what the CLI reference guide says about he member priority command;

Primary and backup servers are designated based on member priority (set with the member command). For example, if a service group contains real servers with the following priority settings, real servers s1, s2, and s3 are the primary servers. Real servers s4 and s5 are backup servers.
• s1 – priority 16
• s2 – priority 16
• s3 – priority 16
• s4 – priority 8
• s5 – priority 8
When the minimum number of active members (primary servers) comes back up, the AX device immediately returns to using only the primary servers.

Cheers!
Note: This is a series of posts made under the Network Engineer in Retail 30 Days of Peak, this is post number 9 of 30. All the posts can be viewed from the 30in30 tag.

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