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Thiyagu_163984
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May 28, 2015

Some strange behavior on the F5 when one pool member is down

Hello All, I'm facing a some strange behavior on the F5. When one web server (of the 2) was offline, refreshing the website in a browser got the website 404 error   This indicates that the LB is n...
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PeteWhite
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May 28, 2015

What did you expect to happen?

 

When you connect to the virtual server it will send you to a server and possibly use persistence to keep you on that server. If that server goes down then it will send you to a different server. Obviously, health monitors take a period of time to detect issues but these can be modified depending on your required reaction time.