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Iain_McGuire_11
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Aug 02, 2006

Redirecting hosted sites on availablily (not servers)

Can someone clarify if the following is possible? My feeling is it's not, using only LTMs, although I'd be happy to hear otherwise.     Our customer currently has two IIS servers, which between ...
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hoolio
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Aug 03, 2006
You can configure a monitor to send an HTTP/1.1 formatted request, including the host header using the following configuration:


monitor http_1.1_pool1_monitor {
   defaults from http
   send "GET /status.html HTTP/1.1\nHost: mysite.com\nConnection: close\n"
   recv "200 OK"
}

The send string specifies what the BIG-IP will request from the nodes the monitor is associated with. The receive string specifies what the BIG-IP expects to get in response.

Aaron