SharePoint monitoring

This isn't really a rules or iControl question but typical usage would be to do something like the following (nothing sharepoint specific below):

 

 

o create a monitoring only meta-site

 

o monitor it

 

 

While monitor instances can be created with monitors logically and'ed together, there's no capability to logically or them together.

 

 

Since this isn't really on-topic for devcentral, I'd suggest contacting our support organization on this issue.

H'mmm, come to think of it, this could be iControl-ish after all.

 

 

You could write an external monitor that did something like the following (assumption: sites are identically represented across the breadth of the cluster):

 

 

o configure a class containing the list of sites to monitor for a specific pool

 

o create an external monitor/pool with the class name as an argument

 

o write an ECV

 

 

The ECV would look something like the following:

 

o query the class via iControl

 

o check each of the specified sites sequentially with the monitor

 

printing something and exiting at your first success

 

 

Needless to say, you wouldn't want to do this too often and you need to set your monitor interval and timeouts high enough to allow N queries. . .where N == number of entries in the class.

 

 

This is all dreamt up in the last 5-10 minutes so it's likely this is a horrible idea.

 

Just for completeness sake, note that we can monitor applications

 

with BIG-IP v9.x. In this version you would create a pool for

 

each application. Each pool would be monitored by a different monitor

 

which monitors the specific application. An iRule is used to vector

 

off to the different pools based on the header. If a monitor reports

 

a pool down, the corresponding application will not get traffic, but

 

the other pools will remain up, receiving traffic.