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Francisco_30437
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Jul 28, 2010

Configure 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 t...
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hoolio
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Jul 29, 2010
Are there any nulls in the string you want to send? If so, you'll need to use an external monitor as the inbuilt monitors don't support nulls. If you are able to use an inbuilt monitor, you can encode the characters using the format \x 20 (without the space between the \x and 20).

 

 

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