What is the difference between “Monitor interface” and “Enable Failover When Interface Failure”in HA

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Question

What is the difference between “Monitor interface” and “Enable Failover When Interface Failure”

Answer

Monitor Interface is for layer 1 physical link monitor, it is trigger by physical link up/down.
Enable Failover When Interface Failure” works on layer 3, when you enable this, you also need to enable "connectivity check", and it is trigger by "connectivity check".