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SYF5
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Jan 18, 2023

Connection count and Requests count are same for one of the pool members

Hello Team, I have LTM pool of 8 members with Round Robin algorithm. Customer complained that one particular pool member is receiving very less traffic when compared. When i checked the pool stati...
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Paulius
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Jan 18, 2023

SYF5 Multiple configuration options could have this result. The biggest one here is each connection or user are most likely using the website differently. I would honestly only look at total number of connections per pool member and if they aren't relatively similar in connection amount, this is assuming they all have the same uptime, I wouldn't really worry about it too much. I believe the better option here would be to have a look at each server and the site that is served out for that VIP and pull statistics that way because it will give you a much better picture on how the website is used on a per user basis if you have those types of statistics enabled and collected. Yes sometimes total connections will equal requests but not always.

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SYF5
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Jan 18, 2023

It is the same content that is being delivered by all 8 pool members. 

They all have the same uptime. We have reset the statistics several times and checked but this particular server has connection count == request count.

This issue is being observed since more than 3 months.

We have taken the packet capture on LTM and on the problem server and it looks like the server is serving only one HTTP request per TCP connection. I will ask the dev team to look at the logs of all the servers and compare the requests/connections.