F5CAB5: BIG-IP Administration Support and Troubleshooting

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Identify the reason a pool is not working as expected

During a user-reported outage affecting one virtual server, a BIG-IP Administrator checks the configured pool associated with that virtual server and finds that the pool-member status icons are black.

What does a black icon indicate?

Explanation

A black BIG-IP pool-member indicator denotes an administratively disabled member, meaning it has been forced offline. A health monitor failure marks a member down instead, which is represented separately as a red status.

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