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LC1729_360106
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May 01, 2018

Hi Joel,

I'm looking to script disable/enable of a node for the purpose of server maintenance similar to what is described here: https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K13310

I'm working with f5 BIG-IP LTM 11.6 Build 5.0.429 HF5

I see in the Github repo that there are functions 

Disable-Node
and 
Enable-Node
but they are not listed in the module functions. Is there a reason for that? Can I expect to use those functions still?

From the above article: "When you interrupt access to a network device for maintenance, you should change the state of the node to Disabled or Forced Offline" - so my understanding is that I should be working with the node rather than pool member. It also seems more straight-forward for my pupose. However I'm a software dev/dev ops rather than a network admin and so not an f5 LTM expert & may well be missing something fundamental.