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adrianglendinning
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Jul 04, 2024

F5 TCP Health Monitor Send/Receive strings

Hi  We need to create TCP health checks on an LTM device that checks the health of a VIP running on an LTMi device. I'm not sure how the send and receive strings should look. Wondering if anyone wou...
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Tofunmi
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Jul 05, 2024

Hi Adrian,

Are you trying to monitor a VIP on F5? Why not monitor the pool members instead?

Check out this article below for crafting strings for tcp monitors.

https://my.f5.com/manage/s/article/K01524704

In addition, most of the time the default tcp profile works perfectly except you're expecting a particular echo response from the servers.