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farache_28983
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Jun 17, 2013

Application Health Check Monitoring - Possible?

I am facing this dilema,   Ideally, F5 monitors each request and any connect error, read timeout means that server is to be blacklisted and the test requests will be used to monitor when the serve...
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nitass
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Jun 20, 2013
Now for the custom monitor, the POST I have is in this format ( like XML) it is POST data, isn't it?

e.g. this is only send string. please make sure you configure receive string and verify if it works as expected. 

root@(ve11a)(cfg-sync Changes Pending)(Active)(/Common)(tmos) list ltm monitor http mypost
ltm monitor http mypost {
    defaults-from http
    destination *:*
    interval 5
    send "POST /uritest/testGetAvail.html HTTP/1.1\\r\\nHost: \\r\\nConnection: Close\\r\\n\\r\\n6/6/20136/7/2013396866880505"
    time-until-up 0
    timeout 16
}

[root@ve11a:Active:Changes Pending] config  ssldump -Aed -nni 0.0 port 80
New TCP connection 1: 200.200.200.11(55746) <-> 200.200.200.101(80)
1371702151.4318 (0.0026)  C>S
---------------------------------------------------------------
POST /uritest/testGetAvail.html HTTP/1.1
Host:
Connection: Close

6/6/20136/7/2013396866880505---------------------------------------------------------------