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chizow_71007
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Apr 09, 2009

HTTP Monitor on High Port

I cannot figure out how to configure a http monitor to work on a random high port. The reals are failing health checks. When I do a "tcpdump port 9006" on the server I see no traffic. Here is my co...
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dennypayne
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Apr 09, 2009
Glad you found out what the problem was, but just FYI you don't have to specify a custom monitor on port 9006 if you've defined the pool members as 9006 already. The default http monitor will use whatever port the pool members are configured on.

 

 

Where that comes in handy is if you have pool members defined on port 0 (wildcard). Then the monitor needs to specify a port.

 

 

Denny