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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

Devices I am seeing are mostly HTTP health checks, with a small sample size of TCP. In our test/dev area, I get the same results if a software engineer may have been working on the server without taking it out of the pool. However, the ones in our Production area, the timestamp is from very early in the morning, when no one is working on the server(s).