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jaddie_85451
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Aug 13, 2014

External Website Monitor

I would like to create an HTTP monitor to attach to a pool that goes that looks at an external website and marks the pool members down based on the status of the webpage.   We have an internal pa...
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hoolio
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Aug 13, 2014

Hi Jaddie,

 

If you're on 10.2 or higher, make sure to terminate your send string with \r\n\r\n not just one set of carriage return/line feeds.

 

Here are a couple of related SOLs:

 

SOL12531 - Troubleshooting health monitors https://support.f5.com/kb/en-us/solutions/public/12000/500/sol12531.html

 

SOL10655: Change in Behavior: CR/LF characters appended to the HTTP monitor Send string https://support.f5.com/kb/en-us/solutions/public/10000/600/sol10655.html

 

Aaron