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Derrick_Chan_18
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Jan 08, 2016

one health check on two situations

We use HTTP health monitor to check that status of the pool. Once the receive string is 500. Then the pool member will be disabled. I know that disable will keep the active connection but not allowe...
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Amine_Kadimi
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Jan 08, 2016

A failing health monitor does not disable a pool member, it rather marks it down. And the F5 will stop sending connections to a marked down member, this differs from a disabled member (but marked up) which can still be sent active and persistent connections.