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crofte_18027
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May 14, 2009

Can an irule be used as a monitor

Can an irule be used as a monitor ?     If so how.     I would like to create a monitor to see if a webservice is available. This will be either a request and a check against a ...
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dennypayne
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May 14, 2009
No, you will need to use either the HTTP monitor template or you can use an External type monitor which points to a shell script or perl script that does the necessary checks.

 

 

There's some examples of external monitors here in the Codeshare: (Click here)

 

 

Denny