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kbk4912
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Oct 12, 2023

What happens when you disable a monitor/all monitors for a pool?

Have a question for all the big-ip folks out there, what happens when you do that? Say you disbale all monitors for a particluar pool which is being used by a virtual server then when a failover happ...
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CA_Valli
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Oct 13, 2023

Without monitoring, the BIG-IP assumes BE servers are always available and performs load balancing according to the configuration in the pool object for that service.
As Amine said, this does not impact how F5 publishes the VIP. All objects in the Traffic Group that your VS belongs to are served by the Active node for that T.G. , and when a failover happens everything (including the disabled VIP) starts to be served by the new Active peer.