Octavia healthmonitors cannot be created as PING in Red Hat OpenStack Platform 13

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Issue

Octavia healthmonitors cannot be created as PING in Red Hat OpenStack Platform 13

The following sequence is invalid:

openstack loadbalancer create --name lb1 --vip-subnet-id private-subnet
openstack loadbalancer listener create --name listener1 --protocol HTTP --protocol-port 80 lb1
openstack loadbalancer pool create --name pool1 --lb-algorithm ROUND_ROBIN --listener listener1 --protocol HTTP
openstack loadbalancer member create --subnet-id private-subnet --address 192.168.0.9 --protocol-port 80 pool1
(overcloud) [stack@undercloud-1 ~]$ openstack loadbalancer healthmonitor create --delay 5 --max-retries 4 --timeout 10 --type PING pool1
The selected type is not allowed in this deployment: PING (HTTP 400) (Request-ID: req-8a6ee146-466a-45f0-8610-e2592855bce0)

And from the controller logs: /var/log/containers/octavia/api.log

(...)
2019-06-27 13:56:23.914 1 DEBUG wsme.api [req-8a6ee146-466a-45f0-8610-e2592855bce0 - 5db19751bbb94e898545a56db731dca7 - default default] Client-side error: The selected type is not allowed in this deployment: PING format_exception /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/wsme/api.py:222
(...)

Environment

Red Hat OpenStack Platform 13

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