HELLO.ASPX WORKS. But to remove a node from pool, since this is a GET and not HEAD, the administrator of web server must change the "Receive String" from "hi" to something else... He can't change the name, the way, I created this simple monitor. For those who are new to F5 like myself (I do know Cisco LBS well)... By default, F5 LTM uses HTTP 0.9. Which means the "send string" is like "GET /hello.aspx\r\n" & receive string is "hi" for my example (without the quotes). I would like to test this via HTTP 1.0 and HTTP 1.1. If I find the answer, I will post here. Again I truly appreciate the above person who tried to help (What Lies Beneath). he was correct all along but we were testing this wrong. If anyone knows how to modify this to use HTTP 1.1, I would truly appreciate their input.