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jdeeby_270877
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Apr 09, 2018

monitor for subpage

Looking to create monitor to query a subpage of a site to see a response.   Like below     output on screen here is   Running as primary   I want the monitor to mark this node as u...
application delivery
BIG-IP
LTM
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jaikumar_f5
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Apr 09, 2018

All you are required to create is single monitor, when your

  • servera is displaying "Running as primary" it will be marked as up,
  • when servera is displaying "Running as standby" it will be marked down.
  • serverb is displaying "Running as primary" it will be marked as up,
  • when serverb is displaying "Running as standby" it will be marked down.

So you can control which server to be Up and down by changing the content on the monitor page.

create ltm monitor http testmonitor { interval 30 timeout 91 send "GET /ha/health-check HTTP/1.1\r\nUser-Agent: BigIP Prober\r\nHost: www.yourfqdn.com\r\nConnection: close\r\n\r\n" recv "Running as primary" recv-disable "Running as standby" }

create ltm pool testpool { load-balancing-mode round-robin members add { 1.1.1.1:8080 2.2.2.2:80 } monitor testmonitor }