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hc_andy_35682
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May 24, 2010

External TCP Helath Monitor

Hi All, We are load balancing a cluster of webmail and imap servers on our LTM. Users log onto webmail which then makes a connection to the imap_vip on port 143. I would like to create an ext...
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hoolio
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May 25, 2010
Hi Andy,

 

 

You can create an inbuilt IMAP monitor and set the username, password, etc in the monitor definition. Or if that didn't work for you for some reason, you could create a custom TCP monitor with no send string and the following receive string:

 

 

\* OK IMAP Mail Ready

 

 

The latter option will probably result in an error on the server for each request, but the monitor should still mark the pool member up.

 

 

Aaron