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Nimbostratus

Mar 10, 2017

HTTP monitor that sends a message to a server that is looking for the word "OPTIONS"

I want to create an HTTP monitor that sends a message to a server that is looking for the word "OPTIONS" and keeps the monitor up by receiving a 200 ok. Can anyone assist?

application delivery

LTM

Samir_Jha_52506

Noctilucent

Mar 13, 2017

Hope this is string OPTIONS not http method OPTION.

cjunior has given output of string 'OPTIONS'.

To achieve this you need to create TCP monitor with GET method, send string ‘OPTIONS’ and receive string '200 OK'.

To validate above output you need to run command on F5 CLI 'telnet yoursite.domain.com portnumber' and enter below

OPTIONS / HTTP/1.1\r\nHost: yoursite.domain.com\r\nConnection: close\r\n\r\n

You will see Receive String:

200 OK

Hope it will solve your query. Paste if you have any questions.

Reginald_Sible1
Nimbostratus
Mar 13, 2017
What would my string look like with the GET method?
Samir_Jha_52506
Noctilucent
Mar 13, 2017
GET method should be used for requests where you are only getting data. Here you wanted to retrieve
200 OK
value in http response.