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Jake_105797
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Apr 27, 2012

Monitor citrix through web interface servers

We load balance two citrix web interface servers and use a standard http health monitor on them. We need to figure out a monitor that will:

 

 

1. Connect to each web interface server

 

2. Accept the auto redirect from the server to an https:// citrix page

 

3. Log in to the page

 

4. Check the delivered page for a receive string.

 

5. If failure - mark that one web server as down (the one it connected to in step 1)

 

 

Is there a way to script this in an iRule? Other ideas? We're running 10.2.0 code.

 

 

Thank you!

 

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  • Hamish's avatar
    Hamish
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    Apr 27, 2012
    Use an external monitor. I usually write it in perl, or bash. Then you have access to things like curl...

     

     

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  • Jake_105797's avatar
    Jake_105797
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    Apr 27, 2012
    I was thinking perl could be used but I'm a bit rusty on it. I'm trying to search up some examples. Do you have any examples that would show any piece of this process?
  • hwidjaja_37598's avatar
    hwidjaja_37598
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    Apr 28, 2012
    Have you seen this: http://www.f5.com/pdf/deployment-guides/f5-citrix-xenapp-dg.pdf
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    Techgeeeg
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    Apr 29, 2012
    Hi Jake,

     

    Which version of TMOS are you using currently???? The iApp feature of the new release gives you the synthetic monitors/Advanced Monitors which will accept a username and password from you and based on that it logs in to analysic which servers is actually serving the client and which one not. I beleive it will help you.

     

     

    Regards,
  • Jake_105797's avatar
    Jake_105797
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    Apr 30, 2012
    I'm running 10.2.0 code. I did find the deployment guide over the weekend and it looks like I need to be at 10.2.1 to get the right template to do this. Also looks like we need to configure a DNS server for the f5 to query so we can enter the domain / uri into the template.