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Sekhar's avatar
Sekhar
Icon for Nimbostratus rankNimbostratus
Jan 19, 2017

"Host" in Monitor

Hi All,

 

I would like to know what is the advantage of using host: in the monitor. Will that change the way of monitoring it was doing without a host name? Please provide some info on this.

 

Thanks, Sekhar

 

application delivery
application health monitoring
LTM

3 Replies

  • Vijay_E's avatar
    Vijay_E
    Icon for Cirrus rankCirrus
    Jan 19, 2017

    I am guessing you are talking about HTTP monitor that has the Host header. Sometimes servers can run multiple websites and using specific host headers can monitor specific sites.

    Example: 3 sites, same health page (/health.html) on the same server.

    domain.com/health.html
domain-1.com/health.html
domain-2.com/health.html
    • Jad_Tabbara__J1's avatar
      Jad_Tabbara__J1
      Icon for Cirrostratus rankCirrostratus
      Jan 20, 2017

      In fact, as lheartF5 said, it is a must in HTTP/1.1

       

      It wasn't the case for HTTP/1.0 version...