This section covers the specific configuration for Ping health monitor type.

A health monitor can be configured for Ping settings if the Type of the health monitor is selected as Ping as shown below.



For configuring the general health monitor settings, see Creating a New Health Monitor.

NSX Advanced Load Balancer Service Engines send an ICMP ping to the server. This monitor type is generally very swift and lightweight for both Service Engines and the server. However, it is not uncommon for ping to drop a packet and fail. Ensure that Failed Checks field is set to 2. This monitor type does not test the application's health, so it generally works best when applied with an application-specific monitor for the pool.

Note:

ICMP rate limiters can prevent Service Engines from aggressive health checking a server through ping. This may be caused by an intermediate network firewall or rate limits set up on the server itself.