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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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Bill_Kelly_5003
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Jan 03, 2013
Hi all,

 

 

The builtin SMB monitor stopped working at v10.1 - see Ask F5 document sol13172. That solution recommends use of an external monitor similar to the one Aaron points to above, which uses the 'smbget' utility. We've been successfully using that approach on v10, but unfortunately 'smbget' is no longer provided on v11...I'm testing at 11.2.1. SOL13172 hasn't been updated for v11, so as far as I can tell, F5's best recommendation at this point is to use a basic TCP monitor (which of course is less than ideal for this situation).

 

 

Has anyone else run into this on v11 and, if so, what was your solution?

 

 

Thanks,

 

Bill