Could someone help me understand the difference between Soft Stop/Soft Start and Disable/Enable?
I can see that when I disable a node in the web UI it is marked as MAINT and when I issue a Soft Stop, the weight is changed to 0. How do those differences impact my connections? What I working on is automating deployments by disabling a server from the proxy, waiting until its connections reach 0, updating the code and restarting the process, then re-enabling the server in the proxy. I'd like to wait until all connections are closed before I begin the upgrade (we have some long running file transfers that we don't want to cut off by dispatching to a different server) >From what I understand, setting the weight to 0 and then back to 1, will accomplish my goal. What I am curious about is if I can accomplish the same goal by disabling the server into MAINT mode or if using both weight and MAINT adds anything useful. Thanks for your help!
