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Which process or system can be monitored by the BIGIP system and used as a failover trigger in a redundant pair configuration.
The correct answer is D. VLAN communication ability. The BIG-IP system can monitor VLAN communication to detect network failures, which can then be configured to trigger a failover in a redundant pair configuration.
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Which process or system can be monitored by the BIGIP system and used as a failover trigger in a redundant pair configuration.
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- Abandwidth utilization
- Bduplicate IP address
- CCPU utilization percentage
- DVLAN communication ability
How the community answered
(30 responses)- A7% (2)
- B3% (1)
- D90% (27)
Why each option
The BIG-IP system can monitor VLAN communication to detect network failures, which can then be configured to trigger a failover in a redundant pair configuration.
Bandwidth utilization is typically a performance metric and not a direct indicator of a critical system or network failure that would necessitate an automatic failover.
A duplicate IP address is a configuration error that could cause issues, but the BIG-IP's failover mechanism primarily monitors its own health, network health, or application health, not the presence of duplicate IPs.
While high CPU utilization can indicate performance issues, it is not typically a direct trigger for a failover unless it leads to complete system unresponsiveness, which is a less specific and less immediate trigger than a network link failure.
The BIG-IP system uses network failover to monitor the status of VLANs. If a configured VLAN loses connectivity or its health check fails, it indicates a network path failure, which can be configured as a failover trigger to ensure high availability.
Concept tested: BIG-IP failover trigger types - network
Source: https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K14135
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