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NimbostratusHTTP monitor which ignores timeouts
MVPCustom Health monitor is always best option to check send/receive string. Ask application team to create one webpage and monitor that page via F5 HTTP health monitor. Its call ECV (Extended Content Verification) - some info is sent to the server and some info is expected to receive.
https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K2167
Below Screen will help you to understand the setting.
JamesRHi , thanks for the reply.
I was hoping to have this centralised that we have a single monitor that is used for holding the service down rather than doing it node-by-node. In the solution we have an 'admin' server that I was hoping to use for this but I'd only want the monitor to be marked as down if the HTTP request returned a 200 and not if it timed out or other things occurred.
I was working on something like this;
ltm monitor http /Common/ServiceMonitor { defaults-from /Common/http description ServiceMonitor destination admin.node.ip:80 send "GET /srvdown.txt HTTP/1.1\r\nHost: bigip.health.check\r\nConnection: Close\r\n\r\n" recv "HTTP/1.1 200" interval 30 timeout 60 reverse enabled }Doesn't look like this is possible though - is that your understanding too?
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