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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 06, 2018

Health check traffic should not get interrupted during the backup of the servers. However, F5 might mark down the server. If, you are using a custom monitor (HTTP,HTTPS or EAV) and it fails to get the "recv string" within the specified time out value because of below reasons:

 

  1. Backup is choking the bandwidth utilization.
  2. High CPU/Disk utilization on the servers.
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Jun 07, 2018

Thanks. I'm having our systems people checking and comparing timestamps of the alerts, with when the backups were performed.