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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

LTM will send requests until the member is marked down. Once LTM says its down, no more requests will be forwarded to that member. Until it is down, requests will be forwarded, but no response will be received so the browser will timeout after awhile and display "host not responding" message.

 

" ... but there application will send data and not care about a received response. "

 

I not sure I understand this. If the pool member is not responding, then the application is not responding. So what is the application sending?