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deangelj
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Mar 23, 2015

Health monitor for a virtual server using an iRule

Hi,   I have a virtual server that essentially uses an iRule to connect at runtime to an external URL. For example, say I'm connecting to an Amazon Web Service called fred.aws.com. In my iRule I d...
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deangelj
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Mar 24, 2015

Wouldn't the GTM health monitor use the VIP's iRule to check the health? (as you can see I'm still learning about F5 technology!)...

 

The issue with checking the response status in the iRule (which I do already) is that I'd like to be pro-active with knowing when the service is down.

 

thanks again for your help.