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tidenz_92110
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Dec 11, 2013

Monitoring a pool

Hi Guys,   Quick question, does anyone know the order of operation when a pool member fails a health check ie. if i have http monitor to do a 5sec poll and a 16sec fail, during that time does the ...
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giltjr
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Dec 11, 2013

The F5 will continue to attempt to send work/connections to the pool member until 16 seconds after the 1st failure. So from second 1 through second 15 it will continue to try and send connections to that member.

 

If you are using some type of persistence, what happens to a connection that was persisted to the now down server will depend on what you have selected for the "Action On Service Down" option on the Pool definition.