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R_Melissari_180
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Dec 15, 2014

Can F5 Health Monitor follow a redirect chain?

I have an application that I am trying to setup a health monitor for and have the following:   Send String: GET /layout.json HTTP/1.1\r\nHost: \r\nConnection: Close\r\n\r\n   Receive String: HT...
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Dec 16, 2014

Michael J: Not sure what a secondary monitor would check? The initial responses look the same whether the database is up or not. It 302 directs to a cookie check and then back to the page. It is only at the end does it give me a status 200 or 500 that I could use. The application does this cookie check redirect on every page it serves out as far as I can tell. At the end of the chain it is at the same page I initially went to.

 

Nitass: It is just a cookie check and arrives back at the original location. I just don't know how to send it a fake cookie or string to bypass the check and get to the end of the chain. Do you have any documentation handy on setting up a curl monitor with the F5 to down nodes?

 

Thank you for your responses.