Graceful disabling of LTM pool members

Question

Does anyone know the API command to gracefully disable pool members such that

1) Any new session is prevented by redirecting to a different member (server) on the pool.

2) Existing sessions aren't disconnected.

I have a pool of 5 servers and I would like to make API call such that only active sessions are kept, and no new sessions are initiated.

So far I tried sending the following in my PUT request body {state:"user-up", session:"user-disabled"}

But it looks like LTM still allows new connection to be there. I cannot seem to find the valid configuration values which I can put for state and session.

Could someone help me? Regards

Answer 1

the mapping from GUI to REST for the appropriate pool member states is documented in this article on DevCentral. To be clear, the disabled state in the GUI is the graceful way to allow existing sessions but not new sessions, and that is in REST {"state": "unchecked", "session": "user-disabled"}