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thunder_92042
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NimbostratusHealthcheck Monitor for Sharepoint
Hi All.
We are running redundant pair of 3400 LTMs (v.9.3.1). We are trying to add new application (Sharepoint) and got stuck at the healthcheck monitor.
Could someone tell me if they are using (or know of) any healthceck monitors for Sharepoint application? Anything that would dig into the application besides the default Healthcheck monitor provided by F5?
We found a document that says to set the healthcheck monitor to Interval 30, Timeout 91, and "GET / HTTP/1.0" send string.
Is there anything else we could use?
Thanks!
hoolioCirrostratus
What about a request for the page that the client is redirected to after the request to /? Also, it would be good to use an HTTP 1.1 formatted request so you can tell the web server that you won't be trying to re-use the TCP connection:
GET /default.aspx HTTP1.1\r\nHost: \r\nConnection: Close\r\n
The receive string could be 200 OK if the site doesn't require authentication for the default page. If the site requires authentication it gets a little more complicated. You could just check for a 401 response, but this doesn't tell you if the app is down and the web server is up. You can configure a stock HTTP monitor to use basic auth. But for NTLM you would need to use an external scripted monitor.
Aaron
Srini_87152My self also facing issues
Below is moniotr configurated on F5--
monitor mon_sharepooint_80 {
defaults from http
recv "pong"
send "GET /ping.html HTTP/1.1\nHost: sharepoint.xxx.com\nConnection: Close\n\n"
}
When i checked manullay from F5 getting error as "HTTP/1.1 401 Unauthorized" even tested provind useename &password on F5 monitor but still seeing sma issue.
PLease let us know how to resolve the issue- Srini_87152My self also facing issues
Below is moniotr configurated on F5--
monitor mon_sharepooint_80 {
defaults from http
recv "pong"
send "GET /ping.html HTTP/1.1\nHost: sharepoint.xxx.com\nConnection: Close\n\n"
}
When i checked manullay from F5 getting error as "HTTP/1.1 401 Unauthorized" even tested provind useename &password on F5 monitor but still seeing sma issue.
PLease let us know how to resolve the issue 
webguy96We recently ran into a similar request to create a more intelligent health monitor which looks for a string of text from within sharepoint that required NTLM authentication. Here are a couple of items that might help depending on which version of F5 you are running. If you are running v11.1 or later the out-of-the-box HTTP monitors now support NTLM authentication so I would recommend that. If you are running something a little older, you may need to create a custom external monitor and leverage CURL so I have included a sample for it as well.
Notes:
1) X-FORMS_BASED_AUTH_ACCEPTED: f -- found to be required for Sharepoint after reading http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh124553%28v=office.14%29.aspx
2) username testuser@mydomain.com instead of the \testuser as suggested in http://support.f5.com/kb/en-us/solutions/public/2000/100/sol2167.html as the latter resulted in our test account becoming locked out
ltm monitor http sharepoint-NTLM {
defaults-from http
destination *:*
interval 30
password "Password01"
recv MyTestText
send "GET /portal/Pages/default.aspx HTTP/1.1\\r\\nX-FORMS_BASED_AUTH_ACCEPTED: f\\r\\nHost: sharepoint.mydomain.com"
time-until-up 0
timeout 91
username testuser@mydomain.com
}
Curl Samples that show how to test individual node IPs for a sharepoint site using Host-Headers:
curl --ntlm -k -v --header "X-FORMS_BASED_AUTH_ACCEPTED: f" --user 'testuser@mydomain.com:!Password01' http://10.10.10.10:80/portal/Pages/default.aspx -H "Host: sharepoint.mydomain.com"
curl --ntlm -k -v --header "X-FORMS_BASED_AUTH_ACCEPTED: f" --user 'testuser@mydomain.com:!Password01' http://10.10.10.11:80/portal/Pages/default.aspx -H "Host: sharepoint.mydomain.com"