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kend's avatar
kend
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Mar 05, 2015

RDP Health Monitor String

In the Deploying F5 with Microsoft Remote Desktop Services Deployment Guide, what is the purpose of using the send string "\x03\x00\x00\x13\x0E\xE0\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x01\x00\x08\x00\x03\x00\x00\x00...
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Michael_Jenkins
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Mar 09, 2015

Not entirely sure, but my assumption is that it's used to initiate some kind of handshake with the RDP server to verify RDP is working appropriately so the monitor will mark the node as up.

I have seen though that the deployment guide is not accurate with all versions of windows server and rdp. In case you have trouble with Server 2008 R2, check out this question for info on the right monitor 

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