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Prince
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Apr 12, 2016

SMB Monitor Not working

Hi All,   I am trying to configure SMB monitor on F5 in order to test out load balancing between 2 Windows File Server. We couldn't get the smb monitor to work. The status is always shown as down....
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Domai
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Apr 12, 2016

SMB port is 445. So I would say check to see if the port is open from your ltm to the file server...telnet test perhaps and see if you get a response back.