An administrator needs to perform maintenance on the active BIG-IP device in an HA pair. The administrator wants to transfer the active role to the standby device without disrupting client traffic. Which action should the administrator take?

Remove the floating IP from the active device and add it to the standby device.

Reboot the standby device to force it to take over.

Disable the health monitor on the active device to trigger a failover.

Initiate a manual failover to force the standby device to become active.

Which type of data is typically synchronized by connection and state mirroring?

Active session tables and persistence records

What is the primary purpose of a health monitor in an HA setup?

To store session state for failover

To verify that a device or service is functioning correctly

To assign floating IP addresses to devices

To encrypt traffic between HA peers

A company has two BIG-IP devices in an active/active configuration. Both devices are load-balancing traffic to the same pool of backend servers. The administrator wants to ensure that if one device fails, the other device can continue to serve the sessions that were established through the failed device. What must be configured?

A health monitor on each device's management interface.

Configuration synchronization set to automatic.

A floating IP address on each device.

Connection mirroring between the two devices.

In an active/active HA configuration, what happens to traffic if one of the devices fails?

The remaining device takes over the full traffic load

All traffic stops until the failed device is replaced

Only new connections are handled by the remaining device; existing connections are dropped

Traffic is rerouted to a standby device that was not previously active

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An administrator needs to perform maintenance on the active BIG-IP device in an HA pair. The administrator wants to transfer the active role to the standby device without disrupting client traffic. Which action should the administrator take?
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Which type of data is typically synchronized by connection and state mirroring?
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What is the primary purpose of a health monitor in an HA setup?
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A company has two BIG-IP devices in an active/active configuration. Both devices are load-balancing traffic to the same pool of backend servers. The administrator wants to ensure that if one device fails, the other device can continue to serve the sessions that were established through the failed device. What must be configured?
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In an active/active HA configuration, what happens to traffic if one of the devices fails?
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