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Fred_Kwong_1047
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Mar 20, 2007

Starting from the top, how to monitor IIS service on a win2003 server

Sorry if this question is in the wrong place, or really just to easy. So I know i can look at port 80 pretty easily, but how do I setup the F5 to verify that IIS service is running, and if not disable the node from the pool.

 

 

If their is a doc to show me how to do this, that's great. Also I'm not very good at scriping if that is needed, so I really need a step by step.

 

 

Thanks,

 

 

Fred
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  • Tech_Imp_40243's avatar
    Tech_Imp_40243
    Historic F5 Account
    Mar 21, 2007
    Hi Fred,

     

     

    Have you taken a look at our IIS BigIP deployment guide at:

     

     

    http://www.f5.com/solutions/deployment/iis_bigip9_dg.html

     

     

    The health monitor is a good place to start. You can always get more in-depth for your monitors and a good resource is our manual and take a look at our Configuring Monitors Chapter at:

     

     

    https://tech.f5.com/home/bigip-next/manuals/bigip9_4/bigip9_4config/BIGIP_LTM_CONFIG_GD_9_4-13-1.html

     

     

    The log-in is free you just need to sign up.

     

     

    Let me know how it goes

     

     

    - James

     

  • Fred_Kwong_1047's avatar
    Fred_Kwong_1047
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    Apr 17, 2007
    Hi James,

     

     

    Thanks for the responce. I've looked at the monitors, but I still don't see anything specific to use to monitor an NT server. For example, lets say that I have the Symantec Antivirus service running on a server and and want to stop load balancing if that service should stop. Is thier any guide at all for this scenario?

     

     

    Thanks,

     

     

    Fred
  • Tech_Imp_40243's avatar
    Tech_Imp_40243
    Historic F5 Account
    Apr 17, 2007
    Hi Fred,

     

     

    If you can get status of the service via a get statement this is one way to then make a load balancing decsion based on that. So when you build say an HTTP monitor you can specify in the GET string something like:

     

     

    "GET /service/service_up.html"

     

     

    Annother option is configure a monitor to check a script or do a SOAP call. For both those I'd recommend taking a look at the monitor section in the Configuration Guide. For the 9.4.2 config guide to to:

     

     

    https://tech.f5.com/home/bigip-next/manuals/bigip9_4/bigip9_4config/BIGIP_LTM_CONFIG_GD_9_4-13-1.htmlwp1209612

     

     

    - James