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Sep 17, 2012

HEX definition in an irule

We want to build an irule that sends HEX to a server and checks the reponse back in HEX. Base don this we want to build a health monitor to mark the server as up or down.   Grateful for any advic...
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Oct 04, 2012
Posted By hoolio on 09/20/2012 09:26 AM

 

You should be able to just specify the hex characters in the send and receive strings in an inbuilt TCP or HTTP monitor:

 

 

sol4186: Entering escape sequences in an HTTP health monitor's Send and Receive strings

 

https://support.f5.com/kb/en-us/solutions/public/4000/100/sol4186.html

 

 

Escape Sequence

 

\xHH

 

 

Description

 

Insert the character with the hexadecimal ASCII code of HH

 

 

Aaron

 

 

Hi Aaron,

 

This worked perfectly. We found we had to precede each HEX character in the string with the escape sequence although we did not try stringing them all together without any gaps, which may have worked.

 

cheers

 

Greg