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Bill_113656
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Jun 12, 2014

LTM Monitor to force server status down and terminate all connections

LTM ver 10.2.3   I need to create a monitor that will look for a file on a server in the pool. The monitor will mark the server down and terminate all connections to the server. While this sounds ...
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Jun 12, 2014

How do you want to check for the existence of the file? SMB? FTP? Here are a couple of examples of these two if you want to go this route:

https://devcentral.f5.com/wiki/AdvDesignConfig.FTP-file-Existence-verification.ashx

https://devcentral.f5.com/questions/health-monitor-to-check-file-on-server

You'd want to configure the 'Action on Service Down' on your pool to 'Reselect'.

Reselect: Specifies that the system manages established client connections by moving them to an alternative pool member when monitors mark the original pool member down.
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    Bill_113656
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    Jun 12, 2014
    Thanks! I will try the ftp option you mention.