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rjordan
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Oct 27, 2009

Monitoring a HTTP 204 response

We are load balancing a 3rd party close source HTTP app. When we asked for a page that can be used as a health check, we were given a page that returns a 204 response (no content). I tried various met...
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T_Kapanka_13663
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Oct 29, 2013

How did you get this to work? What kind of monitor were you using? When I try to create a 204-based monitor, it always marks the pool as down. I'm using the web console to the LTM v11.4.

 

Send String: GET /isAlive\n\r

 

Receive String: HTTP/1.1 204 No Content

 

From this post, it sounds like it can't be done: https://devcentral.f5.com/questions/health-monitors-and-status-codes but it sounds like you were able to. Thoughts?