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nov1ce_120072
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Aug 22, 2013

Issues with the FTP health monitor

Hello,   We're experiencing some strange issue with the FTP health monitor and I'd appreciate any hints.   We have a pair of two BIG-IP appliances (10.2.2 build 763.3 Final) in active/standby m...
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boneyard
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Aug 22, 2013

well i believe you have hit the 8 second limit (which you can't change) in which the FTP server has to reply: http://support.f5.com/kb/en-us/solutions/public/14000/500/sol14509.html

 

so probably thats why the monitor gives up and quits, in my opinion it is a ftp server issue, the server should reply on the PASS ********* command but doesn't. the monitor marks the server up only on a succeful transfer and that doesn't happen here.

 

http://support.f5.com/kb/en-us/solutions/public/13000/600/sol13612.html