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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…
The correct answer is D. The pool members whose nodes are failing the ICMPbased monitor will be marked unavailable. When multiple monitors are assigned to pool members, all assigned monitors must pass for the pool member to be considered operational. If any assigned monitor fails, the pool member's status will reflect the failure.
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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 failing for 2 of the pool member 5 nodes. All other settings are default. What is the status of the monitor is working in all cases. The ICMP monitor is failing for 2 of the pool member. 5 nodes. All other settings are default. What is the status of the pool members.
Options
- AAll pool members are up since the HTTPbased monitor is successful.
- BAll pool members are down since the ICMPbased monitor is failing in some cases.
- CThe pool members whose nodes are failing the ICMPbased monitor will be marked disabled.
- DThe pool members whose nodes are failing the ICMPbased monitor will be marked unavailable.
How the community answered
(41 responses)- A7% (3)
- B5% (2)
- C15% (6)
- D73% (30)
Why each option
When multiple monitors are assigned to pool members, all assigned monitors must pass for the pool member to be considered operational. If any assigned monitor fails, the pool member's status will reflect the failure.
This is incorrect because all assigned monitors must pass for a pool member to be considered up. The success of the HTTP monitor does not negate the failure of the ICMP monitor.
This is incorrect as only the specific pool members failing the ICMP monitor will be marked down, not all pool members. Other pool members that pass all checks remain up.
This is incorrect because 'disabled' usually implies a manual administrative action or a specific state where a member is gracefully taken out of service, not an automatic response to a monitor failure. Monitor failures result in a 'down' or 'unavailable' status.
In BIG-IP, if a pool member fails an assigned health monitor, it is marked as 'unavailable' or 'down' by default, meaning it will no longer receive new connections from the virtual server. Even if another monitor (like the HTTP monitor) is passing, the failure of the ICMP monitor for specific nodes renders those pool members non-operational.
Concept tested: BIG-IP health monitor states and pool member status
Source: https://techdocs.f5.com/en-us/bigip-15-1-0/big-ip-system-health-monitors/introduction-to-health-monitors.html
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