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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...
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?
Yes, you could build a simple iControl call into the monitoring script to update the related pool member status.
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?
You could do that by applying a service monitor of some kind that makes a request then will mark it back up when the service is again available. But sounds like that might be challenging in this case.
Give the iControl solution a shot, I think it will work nicely.
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