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scott_sams_8256
Nimbostratus
Nimbostratusread packet for specific information
is it possible for the f5 to search packets for a specific text string (say "node down") that a node in a pool would return to the host accessing them?
we have a 3 tiered app that while...
scott_sams_8256Nimbostratus
Nimbostratusthanks for the info. the third tier is not directly accessible. these are vendor located tiers and access to them is tightly controlled. we have icmp and our service ports from very specific servers so checking them direct is not an option. i do have a remote app that is running a vscript and querying ping status to these vendors VIA the servers themselves. this for one of our monitoring applications so we can "see" the visibility to these vendors. otherwise we are blind so to speak from a monitoring standpoint. this vbscript does work and returns a status 1 or 0 to my app. i guess that would be possible to integrate with iControl? i have never used that so i will have to look into it. my scripts are fine however my results are flaky right now. trying to narrow down if i have real issues or a busy server.
i did realize that inspecting the packet may not work since if it gives the down indication and i pull the node, how would i ever check to get it back up when the backside is available again?
thanks for your ideas and any other forthcoming.
can you use irule to read a file off of a share and search a string?
