Routing all sites to maintenance page

Hi everyone.  Long time reader, first time poster.  We've had an older  
Foundry ServerIron device sitting in front of all our sites for some  
time now, but haven't set it up to do any serious load balancing.  One  
of the first things I would like to do is route all requests to  
servers that aren't responding to a server running a page that says  
we're down for maintenance.

My initial thought is that I would create "Real servers" for each of  
the services currently not being managed by the load balancer.  Then,  
give some IPs to "virtual servers" to act as the new frontends.  From  
there, I'm not quite sure where to proceed.  Is there a way to tell it  
to go somewhere only when we can't reach something else?  Is there a  
better way to handle this than with the load balancer?

Thanks,
Matt

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Matthew Schmidt
VP of Technology, DZone, Inc.
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