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auyantepui_1695
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Sep 09, 2014

Optimal timeout and interval settings for Apache health monitor

We have a farm of Apache 2.2 webservers being load balanced by a F5. Currently timeout is set to 30 seconds -believe it's the default value-.   Based on this configuration; if a specific webserve...
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auyantepui_1695
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Sep 09, 2014

Thanks for the feedback. We were thinking something similar, where the F5 could identify a webserver being down within 5 seconds. Our current F5 administrator is stating that the default values are the recommended configuration.

 

Is there some kind of guideline/whitepaper on how to define health monitors?

 

Appreciate any additional information you can provide.

 

Regards,