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Ken_B_50116's avatar
Ken_B_50116
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Jun 02, 2016

GTM health monitior vs. service port

I am trying to understand the differences and relationships between GTM "health monitors" and "service ports". When I add a new "Server" in GTM, I have to indicate the "Service Port" (ie: HTTP, HTTPS...
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Vijay_E's avatar
Vijay_E
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Jun 02, 2016

You may be mixing up terminology. I don't see a service port for the GTM Server:

DNS  ››  GSLB : Servers : Server List

This is my recommendation: As a rule of thumb, don't assign a monitor from GTM to the pool member. The status of the pool member is provided by the LTM (i.e., GTM Server) to the GTM.

To answer your questions: When you set up a monitor, the port specified in the monitor will be checked. If there is no port specified, the monitor will check the port configured on the pool member.