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Health check monitor configurations can specify TCP, HTTP or ICMP PING. A health

check occurs every number of seconds indicated by the interval. If a reply is not received

within the timeout period, and you have configured the health check to retry, it will attempt

a health check again; otherwise, the virtual server is deemed unresponsive, and load

balancing will compensate by disabling traffic to that server until it becomes responsive

Figure 270: Health check monitor

Select to add a health check monitor configuration. For more information, see

"To create a health check monitor configuration" on page

The name of the health check monitor configuration. The names are grouped

by the health check monitor types.

The details of the health check monitor configuration, which vary by the type of

the health check monitor, and do not include the interval, timeout, or retry,

which are settings common to all types.

This field is empty if the type of the health check monitor is PING.

Select to remove the health check monitor configuration. This option appears

only if the health check monitor configuration is not currently being used by a

virtual server configuration.

Select to change the health check monitor configuration.

To create a health check monitor configuration

1 Go to Firewall > Virtual IP > Health Check Monitor > Create New.

Figure 271: Creating a health check monitor

2 Complete the following:

Enter the name of the health check monitor configuration.

Select the protocol used to perform the health check.

Enter the port number used to perform the health check.

This option does not appear if the Type is PING.

Configuring health check monitors