How HTTPS health monitor works in f5 loadbalancer

so need to know how it works ...eg 1st ssl handshake ..then http... etc it is just normal https i.e. 3-way handshake, ssl handshake and then http request/response.

 

 

how it establish connection with server...by telnet IP:port ..? you can use "openssl s_client" command to test similar to telnet command for http.

 

 

e.g.

 

 

testing HTTPS with openssl

 

http://blog.yimingliu.com/2008/02/04/testing-https-with-openssl/

 

 

also, tcpdump/ssldump would be helpful to see what is going on.