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ILIAS_g_183177
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Apr 20, 2015

Difference between "Health Monitors" and "service port"

Hello,   I would like to verify that the service port dominates the health port at the pool configuration. In other words, when we set up the service port at the member and is different than the h...
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dragonflymr
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Apr 20, 2015

Hi,

 

Default config for monitor for Alias Address and Alias Service Port is All Addresses/Ports. It means that monitor is using IP and Port configured for member to which it is assigned. So if you have http monitor assigned to memebr with 10.10.10.1:8080 monitor will use this socket for HTTP request used to monitor member state.

 

In case you would like to not use IP or port configured for member you can enter static values in the Alias Address and Alias Service Port for monitor. So you can put 10.10.10.12 and 80 in monitor configuration. When such monitor is assigned to any member it will not use IP or port set for pool member but the ones set in monitor config. So for any member monitor will always use 10.10.10.12:80 to send HTTP requests.

 

Hope it makes sense.

 

Piotr