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mpete32_168869
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Dec 12, 2014

Failure of SMTP health check

I've always received great help here and it's truly appreciated. Now I have another issue that requires some assistance. BTW, I have a support case with F5 regarding this and they have not been abl...
application delivery
availability
LTM
management
smtp
TMSH
  • Dmitri_Ch__1425's avatar
    Dmitri_Ch__1425
    Dec 15, 2014

    @mpete32

     

    You can also try to re-create SMTP monitor. Set Interval to 30, and Timeout to 91. And enable debug (Advanced configuration for the monitor), it may show some info in logs...

     

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mpete32_168869
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I had to increase the time out for the health check from 30/90 to 30/120. That seemed to help with the issue of the delay in the responses between the LTM and the member server.

 

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nitass
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Dec 15, 2014
i never used smtp monitor but i think the delay is not normal. increasing interval/timeout will affect how fast bigd detect pool member down.