Hi,
Here is the expected operation for each of those cases:
A real server.
If the server is not associated with any serverfarm, the status will not be probed (the rserver will be marked as INACTIVE)
A real server and then associate the real server with a server farm. You can associate a single probe or multiple probes with real servers within a server farm.
The probe will only be applied to that specific server
A server farm. All servers in the server farm receive probes of the associated probe types.
The probe will be applied to all the servers in the serverfarm.
Another thing to take into account is that (by default) if more than one probe is associated to a server (either directly or through a serverfarm), all the probes need to succeed to consider the server operational. You can also add the command "fail on all" to a serverfarm or rserver to change this behavior and only consider the server as down when all the probe fail
I hope this answers your question
Regards
Daniel
