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Kireeti_327852
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May 22, 2018

Unavailable vs Disabled Pool Members

A site has assigned the ICMP monitor to all nodes and a custom monitor, based on the HTTP template, to a pool of web servers. The HTTP based monitor is working in all cases. The ICMP monitor is faili...
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youssef1
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May 22, 2018

Hi Kireeti,

 

A BIG-IP administrator can assign a pool member one of the following states:

 

  • Enabled
  • Disabled
  • Forced offline

whereas in your case it is the system that assign a pool member one of the following states according to his state of health:

 

  • Unavailable
  • Available

https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K16008

 

So to answer to your question, the monitor mark the pool members as unavailable instead of disabled because that the system that detect that monitor fail and therefore it mark it at unavailable...

 

Regards