How to setup external monitor with extended ping?

You'll need to use a non-floating self IP as each unit in a redundant pair performs monitor checks while active or standby. To get a non-floating self IP, can you replace the 10.10.10.2 IP in the ping command with this awk line from hwidjaja?

 

 

http://devcentral.f5.com/Default.aspx?tabid=53&forumid=32&tpage=1&view=topic&postid=814027814206

 

 

`awk 'BEGIN {RS="}\n";FS=RS} /^self 1.1.1/ {print $1;} ' /config/bigip_base.conf |head -1|awk '{print $2}'`

 

 

Make sure to replace 1.1.1 with the first three octets of the non-floating self IP address you want to match

 

 

node_ip=`echo $1 | sed 's/::ffff://'`

 

pidfile="/var/run/`basename $0`.$node_ip..$2.pid"

 

if [ -f $pidfile ]

 

then

 

kill -9 `cat $pidfile` > /dev/null 2>&1

 

fi

 

echo "$$" > $pidfile

 

ping -I `awk 'BEGIN {RS="}\n";FS=RS} /^self 1.1.1/ {print $1;} ' /config/bigip_base.conf |head -1|awk '{print $2}'` -c 1 -W 1 node_ip | grep rtt

 

if [ $? -eq 0 ]

 

then

 

echo "UP"

 

fi

 

rm -f $pidfile

 

 

Do you have the pool members set for port 0 or a specific port like 389? Can you set a specific port on the pool members and use the external monitor with no alias port?

 

 

Thanks, Aaron