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MrCurlew_122275
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Apr 02, 2014

HTTPS Health Monitor Question

Need assistance understanding how best to implement an https health monitor for an external facing website. My goal is to mark a pool member down when it's unavailable. I've read about how to creat...
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IheartF5_45022
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Apr 03, 2014

Does the f5 run this monitor for each pool member and mark a server down if it fails?

 

Yes

 

If the monitor is looking at the DNS name for the site how does it determine which server is down?

 

The monitor won't look at the DNS name for the site - it will just initiate an HTTPS connection with each IP in the pool. It will know which server is down. Have you tried it? It should work just fine as documented.