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wtwagon_99154
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Feb 10, 2010

Health Check Issues

The Scenario:     We are performing some load testing of an application and are using a health check as follows:     GET /blah/blah.asmx HTTP/1.1\r\nUser-Agent:Mozilla\r\nhost:bl...
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hoolio
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Feb 12, 2010
The main purpose of a monitor is to ensure that any pool member LTM sends traffic to can handle the traffic. So it's ideal if you can configure the monitor to check a page which hits the database and checks the full state of the application. Inband monitoring is useful for ensuring the network layer is working. As you suggest, the two in combination work well.

 

 

Aaron