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David_130214
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Sep 15, 2014

http health monitor shows website is available when it isn't

Hello,   We are using a http health monitor to check our websites. However it incorrectly shows the website as available when it is down. Below is config for our health monitor. I'm trying to g...
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nathe
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Sep 15, 2014

David. I see you've got no Receive String. Therefore, the monitor will successfully mark a pool member up if it receives any content, or headers back. So try adding a receive string. Can be as simple as "200 OK" (without the quotes").

 

If you run curl from bigip cmd line or fiddler/http fox from a browser you should see the received content when successful and this can help build a robust receive string.

 

Hope this helps.