Health Monitor to check content after logging in

Hi Shankar,

It may be difficult to get a monitor to 'login'. I had a similar request in the past where I needed to monitor a page that is visible only after a user logs in. We were using a cookie to track users' sessions, so we just created a cookie that had an indefinite session length and built a custom HTTP monitor to provide this cookie. The monitor send string would look something like this:

GET /somepage.php HTTP/1.1\r\nHost: mysite.example.com\r\nCookie: user_session_id=\r\nConnection: Close\r\n\r\n

That is assuming that your application is using cookies for user session persistence. If you're doing something else, you might have to get a bit more crafty.

On the email bit, I wouldn't use the LTM to send notifications. I'd look into Nagios, Opsview, Zabbix, etc. There are bunch of great monitoring solutions that do this very well.

Hope this helps,

George