NimbostratusHello. I have a question about best practice for an HTTPS health monitor on a pool that is doing a GET /\r\n for the monitor. The interval is set to 5 secs and the timeout is set to 16 secs. This seems like a lot of requests if LTM is doing a health check every 5 seconds. Are times like that a normal practice or should it be like every 30 secs instead? Thanks in advance.
CirrusThe default timeout isn't often changed unless a specific reason requires there to be a quicker fail-over. Since the F5's main goal is to provide High Availability, the interval is kept shorter rather than longer. A single HTTP request every 5 seconds does not provide much strain on most modern web servers but even a 30 second outage of a site can cause huge issues if other people are relying on that service. F5 has decided a 5 second interval and 16 second timeout is a good middle ground and most people don't see a reason to change it, but feel free to tune it to your specific needs as long as you know the impact it can have on the system as a whole.
Hope that answers your question. If you have any more, I am sure I can help