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Francisco_30437
Nimbostratus
Jul 28, 2010Configure Health Monitor for Netbios Name Server UDP/137 on F5 big-ip
Hello all,
I'm wondering if it's possible to configure a health monitor to check if a WINS server is active. Now I have configured a default udp monitor and when I stop the WINS service on the server, F5 doesn't detect anything, the server remains up in the pool and F5 still continue sending traffic to the server. This is because using default udp monitor, if F5 doesn't get any error reply, assumes the service is UP.
I have read info about external monitors for dns service but to use the same solution we need an application similar to nslookup or dig to send requests to WINS servers. Anyone knows a netbios client for F5 big-ip?
Thanks for your comments.
Francisco
- hoolio
Cirrostratus
Hi Francisco, - daniel_chien_18Historic F5 AccountFor Microsoft WINS server monitor (Netbios name server), it may need to create an external monitor with perl script that queries Netbios name.
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