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Darrin_Wiens_25
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NimbostratusRedirect to Multiple URLs
I am in the process of moving from a Cisco CSS to the F5 and I have an interesting Redirect issue. On the CSS, I have a content rule that has two services associated with it. Each service is of a re...
AndrewO_4840Nimbostratus
NimbostratusPosted By Colin on 05/09/2008 5:29 PM
There isn't a good way that I can think of to do health-checks on remote sites. It's pretty easy to redirect users to wherever you want, but health-checking remote systems is a little more tricky.
Colin
I'm confused by this statement, Colin.
What's the difference?
If you setup a pool with a member that's remote (e.g. sample.domain.com) and setup a health monitor that performs 'GET /blah', surely this will do what the OP wanted...? mark the node down if the remote site doesn't respond to the GET /blah, thereby enabling the LB::status check.
What am I missing?
