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Shoaib_020
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Mar 04, 2024

Regarding custom monitor for multiple pool members

I have three pool members and I wanted to create a custom monitor. The pool member will response with string "GREEN" in response to  https://pool_member_ip/inside/nzvi/poll when I am creating a mon...
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zamroni777
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Mar 05, 2024

because the intended value is pool member's IP address, then you dont need to specify the value for the Host header because  it is default value used by LTM monitor.

Connection: close and HTTP/1.1 things are also not needed as LTM monitor will use the TCP connection for 1 requset and properly close it after getting response.

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Shoaib_020
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Mar 05, 2024

Okay. So the send string will look like as below right ?  

GET /inside/nzvi/poll \r\n Host: \r\n