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N_67263
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Aug 27, 2013

Difference between health monitor using "http" and "tcp port-80"

Folks,   The use case I have is we have a pool configured with 2 nodes in it and has the health monitor set as http. There was some testing going on on one of the nodes and the pool was showing as...
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JG
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Aug 27, 2013

Simply put, HTTP runs over TCP, and sucessful access on the TCP layer does not mean HTTP works as well, as is shown in your case.