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Luca_55898
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Sep 08, 2011

Custom monitor XML page

Hi,     I need to create a cutom monitor on an XML page.   I have two VIPs running on TCP 7800 and 7843.   Each VIP has a pool which the F5 forwards to on the relevent port (7800 or 7843) ...
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hoolio
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Sep 09, 2011
Hi Luca,

 

 

You can create a single HTTP monitor with a send string of:

 

 

GET /healthcheck HTTP/1.0\r\n\r\n

 

 

The receive string could be something like this (depending on the exact format of the response xml:

 

 

< status >OK< /status >

 

 

Here are a couple of links with suggestions for troubleshooting monitors:

 

 

http://support.f5.com/kb/en-us/solutions/public/12000/500/sol12531.html

 

http://devcentral.f5.com/wiki/AdvDesignConfig.TroubleshootingLtmMonitors.ashx

 

 

Aaron