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Luca_55898
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Aug 11, 2011

HTTP Monitor

Hi,     I have a HTTP monitor configured to check a webpage of a node. The config is this:     Send String: GET /heartbeat.html \r\n   Reture String: SUCCESS     I was doing some...
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nathe
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Aug 11, 2011
Luca

 

 

I didn't think monitor receive strings were case-sensitive so I double checked and I found this doc on askf5, which applies to all LTM versions:

 

 

http://support.f5.com/kb/en-us/solutions/public/12000/300/sol12376.html?sr=15973326

 

 

I would probably want to take a look at curl (curl -v http://x.x.x.x/heartbeat.html, for example) to see what was being returned and try and configure a monitor around this. Or fiddler / httpfox if you want to use a GUI.

 

 

Also, a successful connection to a page should always return a 200 OK (that's what I've always thought anyway).

 

 

Curl Example

 

* About to connect() to x.x.x.x port 80

 

* Trying x.x.x.x... connected

 

* Connected to x.x.x.x (x.x.x.x.) port 80

 

> GET / HTTP/1.1

 

> User-Agent: curl/7.15.3 (i686-redhat-linux-gnu) libcurl/7.15.3 OpenSSL/0.9.7l zlib/1.1.4

 

> Host: x.x.x.x

 

> Accept: */*

 

< HTTP/1.1 200 OK

 

< Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2011 08:58:22 GMT

 

 

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