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Thiyagu_163984
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May 28, 2015

timeout value of health monitoring

Hello All, I'm trying to understand more about the timeout value of health monitoring.   For example if the probe interval is set to 15 seconds and timeout is set 46 sec and now the server is dow...
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amolari
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May 29, 2015
  1. 46 seconds
  2. yes. When LTM sees the pool member down it won't send new connections to that backend. Active/persisted connections are handled differently (see option "Action on service down")
  3. depends on your application and keeping a good balance between "reactivity" to such an event and overwhelming the backend with monitor requests. Good practice is what F5 recommends (if I remember.. should be in their KB): timeout = 3x interval + 1