Health Monitor (Synthetic transaction)for Exchange2010

I assume you want to monitor the client access servers which use HTTP(S). That's possible with LTM for Exchange as well. But I'm not sure what authentication method you are using on the Exchange servers? It could be NTLM, basic or digest auth:

 

 

 

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb125207.aspx

 

 

In Exchange 2010, Client Access servers support Integrated Windows authentication and HTTP 1.1 Digest authentication for Exchange 2010 virtual directories. Exchange 2010 virtual directories on a server that's running only the Client Access server role support only Basic and forms-based authentication.

 

 

Standard authentication methods include Basic authentication, Digest authentication, and Integrated Windows authentication.

 

 

 

For basic or digest auth, you should be able to specify the user:pass in a custom inbuilt HTTP monitor. For NTLM, I think you'd need to use an external monitor which references curl:

 

 

http://devcentral.f5.com/wiki/default.aspx/AdvDesignConfig/TemplateForExternalLtmMonitors.html

 

http://www.the-little-things.net/blog/2011/01/21/big-ip-sharepoint-2010-monitor/

 

 

Aaron