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The_Bhattman
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May 09, 2008

Monitoring Google Search Appliance

Hi Folks,   A collegue of mine has a unique issue. His app team is requesting to load balancing a couple of Google Search Appliances. However, he is having a hard time trying to figure out a...
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st0n3_87491
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Oct 20, 2008
Until I find something better, I use aaron's method using a http_head monitor, which works fine for me: 

HEAD /search?q=bigip&site=default_collection&client=default_frontend&output=xml_no_dtd&proxystylesheet=default_frontend HTTP/1.0 \n\n 

HTTP/1.0 200 OK

--> UP

FYI: It's important that the monitor sends two carriage returns after the HEAD/GET request! (\n\n)