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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...
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Tech_Imp_40243
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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