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Leo_D_53884
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Jan 18, 2013

External TCP port monitor 5150

Hi all,   We have a crapy app that crashes internally even though the monitored service (TCP Half Open on port 29029) stays up. The app developer wrote a small program that will return a "1...
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hoolio
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Jan 18, 2013

Hi Leo,

 

 

You could potentially write an inbuilt TCP monitor for this. What's the string the client needs to send to get the status of the app?

 

 

An inbuilt monitor will be more efficient than an external monitor. See this SOL for details on writing a custom inbuilt TCP monitor:

 

 

SOL4186 - Entering escape sequences in an HTTP health monitor's Send and Receive strings

 

https://support.f5.com/kb/en-us/solutions/public/4000/100/sol4186.html

 

 

Aaron