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eblair84_141985
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NimbostratusNative method to manually change the state of a monitor
Is there a native way to manually monitor and possibly change the state of a pool member, without having to use the iControl interface? I want to get approval to use a Java or Pel iControl library bu...
http://support.f5.com/kb/en-us/solutions/public/7000/400/sol7444.html?sr=37369745
You can add logging statements to your external monitor to view the variable output. /var/log/ltm is a good target.
Once I know the variables, I play with the script from the shell until it behaves like I expect.
Make sure you have handling to gracefully exit the process included in the script. These monitors fire off at the interval you specify, usually seconds, and they can stack up quite quickly and cause memory contention issues.
http://support.f5.com/kb/en-us/solutions/public/7000/400/sol7444.html?sr=37369745
You can add logging statements to your external monitor to view the variable output. /var/log/ltm is a good target.
Once I know the variables, I play with the script from the shell until it behaves like I expect.
Make sure you have handling to gracefully exit the process included in the script. These monitors fire off at the interval you specify, usually seconds, and they can stack up quite quickly and cause memory contention issues.
eblair84_141985So, then the last question I have is what part does the "variables" play in the external monitor? The "arguments" parameter makes sense in an argv[] sense.