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A site is load balancing to a pool of web servers. Which statement is true concerning BIG-IP's ability to verify whether the web servers are functioning properly or not.
The correct answer is A. Web server monitors can test the content of any page on the server.. BIG-IP HTTP monitors are fully configurable, allowing administrators to specify any URI and match any response content to verify the health of any page on a web server.
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A site is load balancing to a pool of web servers. Which statement is true concerning BIG-IP's ability to verify whether the web servers are functioning properly or not.
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- AWeb server monitors can test the content of any page on the server.
- BWeb server monitors always verify the contents of the index.html page.
- CWeb server monitors can test whether the server's address is reachable, but cannot test a page's
- DWeb server monitors can test the content of static web pages, but cannot test pages that would
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BIG-IP HTTP monitors are fully configurable, allowing administrators to specify any URI and match any response content to verify the health of any page on a web server.
BIG-IP HTTP and HTTPS monitors support a configurable send string that targets any URI path on the server, along with a receive string that checks for specific content in the HTTP response body. This design gives administrators full flexibility to test any page and validate any expected content, not just default pages.
BIG-IP monitors do not default to testing index.html; the URI sent in the health check request is fully configurable by the administrator.
BIG-IP HTTP monitors go beyond simple reachability checks - they can validate specific strings within the HTTP response body using the configurable receive string.
BIG-IP HTTP monitors are not limited to static pages; they can test dynamic pages by checking for expected strings in the response, regardless of how the page is generated.
Concept tested: BIG-IP HTTP health monitor content verification
Source: https://techdocs.f5.com/en-us/bigip-16-1-0/big-ip-local-traffic-management-monitors-reference.html
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