You can set the trofsPersistence flag to specify whether a service in the transition out of service (TROFS) state must maintain persistent sessions. When a monitor is TROFS enabled, it can place a service in the TROFS state on the basis of the server’s response to a monitor probe. This response is compared with the value in the trofsCode parameter for an HTTP monitor or the trofsString parameter for an HTTP-ECV or TCP-ECV monitor. If the code matches, the service is placed in the TROFS state. In this state, it continues to honor the active client connections. In some cases, the honored active sessions might have to include persistent sessions. But in other cases, especially those involving long-lived persistence sessions or persistence methods such as custom server ID, honoring the persistent sessions can prevent the service from transitioning to the out-of-service state.

If you set the trofsPersistence flag to ENABLED, persistent sessions are honored. If you set it to DISABLED, they are not.