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RAQS's avatar
RAQS
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Sep 29, 2021

LTM | Disable Pool Member

Hi Team,

 

Hope you all are doing great!

 

Please help me to understand below :-

 

If we disable pool member then will it still send health traffic to backend server or it will not send any traffic to backend member.

 

Regards,

RAQS

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2 Replies

  • Enes_Afsin_Al's avatar
    Enes_Afsin_Al
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    Sep 29, 2021

    Hi RAQS,

    If there is a monitor assigned to a pool or pool member, monitor requests are sent to the server, regardless of enable or disable. You can see this with tcpdump.

    tcpdump -ni any host <non-floating-ip> and host <pool-member-ip> and port <pool-member-port>

    When the member is disabled or force-offline, the active connections continue.

    Status Indicator

    ● Black Circle: member disable and available

    ⯁ Black Diamond: member disable and unavailable

    ◼ Black Square: member disable and availability is unknown(no monitor)

    Detailed Articles:

    https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K13310

    https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K12213214

  • RAQS's avatar
    RAQS
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    Sep 30, 2021

    Hi Enes,

     

    Thanks for your reply.. so disabling/enabling and force offline of pool member will still send traffic ?

    If we disable node directly then still health monitor traffic will be send to server ?

     

    Regards,

    RAQS