On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 10:30:59AM -0400, Les Stroud wrote: > I have a situation where this may be useful, but I want to make sure I > understand. In this particular case, if the user cannot be serviced by a > backend server, I need them to logout and log back in (too much crap stored > in session). While we are working to resolve that problem, is option persist > an option for that situation?
If you want the user to still access the same server, yes it is an option, and it's designed for this precise purpose. The original goal of the "persist" option was to perform a soft-stop on servers. We would make them fail the health check so that they would be removed from LB, but visitors with proper information (cookie) would still go to that server, unless the server fails to connect. As time passed, it has been superseded by the ability to set a zero weight instead of marking servers down while they're not really. Regards, Willy
