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Dazzla_20011
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Mar 31, 2011

GTM's Link Monitoring

Hi,     Just wondered what link monitoring people use on their GTM's. Basically I would like to ensure if there is any problem upstream of our ISP router that the data centre associated with thi...
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hoolio
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Mar 31, 2011
Hi Darren,

 

 

Common options are to transparently monitor one or more external web sites that should hopefully not go down, like bbc.co.uk. You should be able to configure multiple checks and then mark the link up if any of them succeed.

 

 

See SOL6848 for more info:

 

 

SOL6848: Monitoring link objects on a BIG-IP GTM or Link Controller system

 

http://support.f5.com/kb/en-us/solutions/public/6000/800/sol6848.html

 

 

Aaron