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JCMATTOS_41723
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Feb 21, 2008

Logging Monitor Probe failures?

We have dual 8400 LTM's 9.4.3 and are currently logging to a remote server. However, we would like to also log when a monitor fails the first time initially. Currently, we fail the members after 3 con...
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hoolio
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Feb 25, 2010
Sure. You can enable a database key to instruct bigd to print the monitor name which failed when a pool member is marked down by running 'b db bigd.lognodestatuschange enable' from the command line. See this post for details:

 

 

Email notification of node/vs down

 

http://devcentral.f5.com/Default.aspx?tabid=53&forumid=31&tpage=2&view=topic&postid=2016728526

 

 

Also, you can enable debug on the monitoring daemon, bigd, by running 'b db bigd.debug enable' at the command line. The output is written to /var/log/bigdlog. The logging is very verbose so disable the logging once you're done collecting logs (using 'b db bigd.debug disable').

 

 

Aaron