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Peeyush_Bansal_
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Aug 18, 2017

Can F5 invoke custom weblogic scripts?

I am completely new to F5, pardon me for any mistakes. I have weblogic server scripts in java which tells me if my server is healthy and ready to accept requests. Can I invoke these scripts with F5? If yes then how can i achieve this?

 

Any help will be appreciated.

 

Thanks

 

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  • Jad_Tabbara__J1's avatar
    Jad_Tabbara__J1
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    Aug 18, 2017

    Hello Peeyush,

     

    We can make a lot of things with F5.

     

    As I understand you want to monitor your Weblogic servers from the BIG IP so you want to configure a monitor, right ?

     

    This document will give you all monitor types and how to configure it :

     

    For your special case, I think you can use "external monitor", "scripted monitor" or "WMI monitor" if it is a windows os.

     

    If you find that these monitors are complex, a simple manner is to custom your weblogic server script, by doing following :

     

    • if the healthcheck script succeed : create a web page with text "server up" for example
    • if the healthcheck script fails : modify this web page with text "server down" for example

    Then you create a simple HTTP monitor that will check for this web page /weblogic/f5monitor.html. If the response contains "server up" the F5 will mark the pool members as UP.

     

    Hope it helps,

     

    Waiting for your feedback

     

    Regards