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cjunior_138458
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Dec 16, 2014

Health monitor and shared backend server/services

Hello, Since the boxes active / standby, makes the monitoring of servers, so we have two sources to the same destination monitored. If a monitor is making calls by default every 5 seconds, or 12 per ...
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PeteWhite
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Dec 18, 2014

You are correct - it is a trade-off between amount of traffic and time to detect issues. If you're not sure then go with the default times. If you have issues with servers bouncing then reduce the timeouts. It makes sense to use the HEAD statement although this doesn't send the data obviously so you'd have to just check the response ie "200 OK"