F5 is upgrading its customer support chat feature on My.F5.com. Chat support will be unavailable from 6am-10am PST on 1/20/26. Refer to K000159584 for details.

Forum Discussion

German_P__Santi's avatar
German_P__Santi
Icon for Nimbostratus rankNimbostratus
Aug 24, 2012

Source IP Address for Monitors Probes

I need information about how make the configuration to use Virtual Server IP Address as Source IP Address for the Monitoring Probes, for example an HTTP Monitor.     Thanks in advance  
management
monitoring
hoolio's avatar
hoolio
Icon for Cirrostratus rankCirrostratus
Aug 24, 2012
Hi German,

 

 

You cannot specify the source IP address the LTMs use to source monitors with the inbuilt monitors. You can specify a source address for external monitors. Here's an example using ping:

 

 

https://devcentral.f5.com/wiki/AdvDesignConfig.ICMPCustomSourceAddressMonitor.ashx

 

 

That said, it's not possible to source monitor traffic from an IP address that's shared between units in an active standby pair as both units monitor the pool members at the same time and only one unit owns each shared IP address at any given time.

 

 

Aaron