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Jeffrey_Morrow's avatar
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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Dali_Chauhan_33
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Jun 05, 2018

this issue is not related to F-5.

 

i have an question :-

 

+is issue occurred at same time. if yes then check the tcpdump for that duration .

 

+check if there is any issue on log server.

 

+check if there is any patch update on servers/log server.

 

but for sure this is definitely not related to F-5 scheduled backup.

 

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Jeffrey_Morrow
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Jun 07, 2018

I am certain this is NOT an issue with the F5. These pool member up/down log entries are around 2-3am. I'm dedicated, but not that dedicated so early in the AM....the root of my question was to see if this may be a normal result, if system backups could have interrupted enough health-checks.