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BIG-IP Administration Data Plane Concepts (F5CAB2)-Question 32 Discussion
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A BIG-IP Administrator assigns the default http health monitor to a pool that has three members listening on port 80. When the administrator connects to each pool member via the CURL utility, two of the members respond with a status of 404 Not Found while the third responds with 200 OK. What will the pool show for member availability? (Choose one answer)

  • A. Two members offline and one member online
  • B. Two members online and one member offline
  • C. All members offline
  • D. All members online
Correct Answer: A

Brave-Dump Clients Votes

A 63.64%
B 18.18%
D 18.18%

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Patipan 2025-12-17 08:47:29

Selected Answers: B


Explanation (BIG-IP default HTTP monitor behavior):

The default HTTP health monitor on BIG-IP sends an HTTP request (usually GET /) and expects a 200 OK response.

Any response other than 200 OK (such as 404 Not Found) is treated as a monitor failure.

Given results:

2 pool members return 404 Not Found → ❌ monitor fail → Offline

1 pool member returns 200 OK → ✅ monitor pass → Online

✅ Pool status result:
Two members offline and one member online

This is a classic F5 CAB1 / LTM health monitor question.


Anonymous User 2025-12-20 01:07:38

Selected Answers: B


B. Two members online and one member offline
Is correct
D is wrong


Yongguang Li 2025-12-20 09:42:45

Selected Answers: A


Two members offline and one member online


Anonymous User 2025-12-27 18:48:23

Selected Answers: A


Two members offline and one online, the answer is well explained below comment, But the answer B shows Two members online ,not one , i think it is a mistake .


CABGroup 2025-12-31 16:04:27

Selected Answers: A


A is correcr


Drome 2026-01-06 19:02:06

Selected Answers: A


Explicación

El monitor http por defecto en BIG-IP:

Envía una solicitud HTTP GET /

Considera UP solo si la respuesta es 200 OK

Cualquier otro código (como 404 Not Found) se considera DOWN

En tu escenario:

2 pool members responden 404 Not Found → ❌ OFFLINE
1 pool member responde 200 OK → ✅ ONLINE


Anonymous User 2026-01-19 03:54:54

Selected Answers: A


The correct answer from the website


Anonymous User 2026-04-14 12:28:10

Selected Answers: D


Any response from the server means that it is online. You would receive a connection timeout or network error (no response code at all) if the server was offline.


Tapiwa Moyo 2026-08-06 07:36:46

Selected Answers: A


For your uploaded BIG‑IP health monitor question:

When you assign the default HTTP health monitor to a pool, it expects a 200 OK response to mark a member as available.

Two members return 404 Not Found → the monitor interprets this as a failure.

One member returns 200 OK → the monitor interprets this as success.

👉 Correct answer: A. Two members offline and one member online.


Tapiwa Moyo 2026-08-06 07:38:00

Selected Answers: A


For your uploaded BIG‑IP health monitor question:

When you assign the default HTTP health monitor to a pool, it expects a 200 OK response to mark a member as available.

Two members return 404 Not Found → the monitor interprets this as a failure.

One member returns 200 OK → the monitor interprets this as success.

👉 Correct answer: A. Two members offline and one member online.


raaaami 2026-09-13 11:20:00

Selected Answers: D


in F5 BIG-IP, the default http health monitor does not have a "Receive String" configured by default. Because it lacks a specific string to match against (like looking specifically for a "200 OK" status), the monitor simply checks if a TCP connection can be established and if the server returns any HTTP data.

Since both a 200 OK and a 404 Not Found response return data from the server, the default monitor considers all three responses as successful, marking all pool members as online. To fix this and mark the 404 members offline, an administrator would need to configure a custom HTTP monitor with a specific Receive String (e.g., "200 OK").