Saturday, 21 December 2019

F5 health checkup

F5 : HEALTH CHECK ..
WHICH ONE YOU HAVE CONFIGURED?
ACTIVE OR PASSIVE MONITORING
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Active monitoring means F5 will initiate the monitoring traffic every X seconds and keep on checking if servers are fine. Disadvantage is this will add extra load to the actual traffic.
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Passive Monitoring means F5 will not initiate the monitoring traffic, instead will capture the details from the response returned to users.
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Suppose server response is higher than threshold, then it will be counted as failures. Subsequent failures will make the server eligible to be marked as down
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