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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 web server monitors are highly flexible and can be configured to test specific content on any page of a web server, not just basic reachability or default pages.
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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 content.
- DWeb server monitors can test the content of static web pages, but cannot test pages that would require the
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(17 responses)- A94% (16)
- C6% (1)
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BIG-IP web server monitors are highly flexible and can be configured to test specific content on any page of a web server, not just basic reachability or default pages.
BIG-IP's HTTP and HTTPS health monitors allow administrators to define a 'Send String' (the request sent to the server, including specific paths like /myapp/status.html) and a 'Receive String' (the expected content or string in the server's response). This capability enables verifying the functional health of specific web pages and applications, not just basic server availability.
This is incorrect; web server monitors do not always verify 'index.html'. They can be configured to check any specified path and content.
This is incorrect because HTTP/HTTPS monitors can indeed test a page's content using the 'Receive String' parameter, beyond just network reachability.
This is incorrect because BIG-IP monitors can test the content of dynamic web pages as long as the expected 'Receive String' is consistently present in the response when the page is functioning properly.
Concept tested: BIG-IP HTTP/HTTPS health monitor capabilities
Source: https://techdocs.f5.com/en-us/bigip-15-1-0/big-ip-system-health-monitors/http-health-monitors.html
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