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Jeffrey_Morrow
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Jun 05, 2018

Do pool servers go down during backups ?

I've noticed in the F5 logs that servers show monitoring status as down at weird times of the early morning. Could it be that during times of backups, they fail health-checks? And its not all of the...
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Jun 05, 2018

I do not think that should be the case. If you have enabled default ping monitoring as a means of health check, that should not get disturbed while any of the activity, including backup. Does any of your monitoring tool also report those servers as unavailable ?