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Rabih_74451
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Jul 25, 2007

Health Checking Internet links behind proxy servers

Hi,     I have a requirement to load balance forward proxy servers with load balancing decisions based on the:   1. Availability of Proxy service itself (squid).   2. Availability of the I...
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JRahm
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Jul 25, 2007
There may be a simpler way, but I think you'll get the best bang for your buck by using a pre-configured monitor for your first requirement and then writing an external monitor that would perform steps 2 & 3 are return a pass/fail response. Here's the external monitor wiki page:

 

 

http://devcentral.f5.com/wiki/default.aspx/AdvDesignConfig/ExternalMonitor.html Click here