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Xavier_113679
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Aug 06, 2012

Passing variable to http monitor

Hi, I'm trying to setup a monitor for a pool containing 3 members that will call a servlet located on a different server. Here's an idea     GET /rsa_check?$NODE HTTP/1.1\nHost: server_hosting_s...
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Aug 08, 2012
Aaron, when you refer to custom monitor, you refer to external monitor, right? External monitor would do the trick indeed as I could use the $1 variable representing the pool member IP (IPV6 format though). There would not even be a need to create individual monitors per pool member. But from what I've heard from F5 support, external monitor are not recommended in terms of best practices, hence why I'm trying to find a solution with the http monitor.