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thompc01_112539
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Jan 23, 2009

Health Monitor

I am running a a pair of F5 that is being used to monitor a Web-Logic application which which is being served up by a Apache server. I am currently monitoring using http-80. What i realize is that whe...
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James_Quinby_46
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Jan 25, 2009
Is there a way for you to "talk" to the WebLogic server directly? I bet if you dig around, you'll find the actual app listening on some odd-ball port, with apache in the middle doing some proxying (and possible URL re-writing).

 

 

Another method would be to check a page that you're sure will only work if the java app server is up and running. At my old shop, we'd frequently get the dev team to drop little JSP files here and there that we could check. There'd be some simple little app that returned a single row of a database, or simply returned "SUCCESS" if the J2EE server was up. Once we had one of those, we could aim a monitor there and know for sure if the app server was up and running correctly.