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CirrusGTM monitor, type = Oracle
I have created a monitor in GTM, of type "Oracle". After attempting several different connection strings, etc. it became apparent that no tcp of any kind is actually exiting the GTMs. Packet captures, firewall logs, Oracle logs all show nothing going toward the Oracle servers in the pool (I understand about iQuery monitoring from other f5 devices). Is there a communication package like jdbc or TNS that must be installed into the GTM to make communication possible?
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OTS02Got the Oracle monitor to work using a connection string like: (DESCRIPTION=(ADDRESS=(PROTOCOL=tcp)(HOST= 10.160.5.127)(PORT=1521))(CONNECT_DATA=(SERVICE_NAME=vantst))(SERVER=dedicated)). What I don't understand is why I cannot capture this in the tcpdump. Actually, when the monitor was failing (like when I intentionally passed the wrong SERVICE_NAME), I could see it in the packet captures, but when it was passing, all tcpdump picked up was the pings. I would very much like to understand why.
- OTS02
OK - this post is a mess. Finally got a good configuration. Created a new post with the good working configuration detailed. Please see https://devcentral.f5.com/questions/oracle-monitors-for-wide-ip
