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ArtRst_137283
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Nov 07, 2013

Configuring Monitors on F5 LTM

I am fairly new to F5 and trying to set monitors for my SharePoint farm , I tried creating HTTP monitor , its just basic HTML file with "Up" text in it ... What I am trying to achieve is , if I chan...
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    Kevin_K_51432
    Nov 07, 2013

    Ah, the host header is required by most web-servers. We'll try again:

    telnet 10.10.10.1 80
 Then type
GET /_layouts/images/filename.html HTTP/1.1
 Enter once
HOST: server domain
 Enter twice
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Kevin_K_51432
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Nov 07, 2013

Can you run a telnet test from the BIG-IP to see what HTTP's coming back from the server? I just did a quick test and the monitor uses Up or Down in the receive string with no issue. Here's what my server response looks like:

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Thu, 07 Nov 2013 21:46:30 GMT
Server: Apache/2.2.22 (Ubuntu)
Last-Modified: Thu, 07 Nov 2013 21:45:45 GMT
ETag: "41028-25-4ea9d3027d15c"
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Content-Length: 37
Vary: Accept-Encoding
Connection: close
Content-Type: text/html

10.12.23.27
server
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