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kris_20094
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Feb 25, 2010

irule to check existance of registry key?

Hi Guys,     Just wondering if its possible to check the existance of a registry key on a Windows machine to determine if the server is alive? Used as a health check to determine the traffi...
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Feb 25, 2010
Hi Kris,

 

 

This seems related to the questions we've seen on monitoring a Windows service:

 

 

 

Here are a few related posts. I think the best practice solution would be to write a web page which checks the status of the service on the local server and then responds with a specific string indicating success or failure. You could then configure an HTTP monitor which polls that web page.

 

 

Monitoring a windows service

 

http://devcentral.f5.com/Default.aspx?tabid=53&forumid=32&tpage=1&view=topic&postid=23312

 

 

Monitoring a Microsoft Windows Service

 

http://devcentral.f5.com/Default.aspx?tabid=53&forumid=32&tpage=1&view=topic&postid=32382

 

 

 

 

I don't know of any Linux utilities that could be used to remotely access a Windows host and get or set registry keys. I supposed you could install an SSH server on the Windows hosts; create a script that establishes an SSH connection and runs the regedit commands to check for specific key(s); and then use that script as an external monitor for LTM. All in all, it seems fairly complicated.

 

 

Aaron