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starboy's avatar
starboy
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Oct 16, 2017

Health Monitors

Hi everyone I have 2 ltm_https pool members. i used gateway_icmp health monitor for the pool and none for the nodes however the pool and virtual servers became available while the nodes are unknown e...
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Kevin_Davies
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Oct 16, 2017

Use a https monitor on the pool. You don't need a node monitor as the pool monitor implies the node is up if it is working.

The login page is usually a good option. Choose some text on that and note the URL. For example if the text was "welcome to corporate site" and the url was https://www.site.com/index.html then in your https monitor the send string would be...

GET /index.html\r\n

and your receive string is...

welcome to corporate site