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Ken_B_50116
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Jun 14, 2012

Health monitor that will read the contents of a text file via SMB?

Is it possible to construct a health monitor that will either read the contents of a text file at OR just look for the existence of a file at ?     The SMB monitor appears to only deal with ch...
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hoolio's avatar
hoolio
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Jun 15, 2012
There's a builtin SMB monitor that checks for the existence of a file. If you have issues with that or need to check the contents you can use this external monitor example:

 

 

https://devcentral.f5.com/wiki/AdvDesignConfig.Windows-File-Share-Monitor-SMB-CIFS.ashx

 

 

Aaron