how have others conquered external monitor resource alloc problems?

I concur. I found that the script is killed after any STDOUT is sent:

 

 

https://devcentral.f5.com/wiki/AdvDesignConfig.TemplateForExternalLtmMonitors.ashx

 

Note that any standard output will result in the script execution being stopped

 

So do any cleanup before echoing to STDOUT

 

 

Aaron