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Young_25175
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Jun 19, 2014

syntax for simple http monitor

Hi,   I would like to create an http monitor that goes to this sample page http://www.whatever.com/default.aspx. I am struggling with the syntax to put in the send string to accomplish this. Wha...
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  • Dayne_Miller_19's avatar
    Dayne_Miller_19
    Jun 19, 2014

    GET /default.aspx HTTP/1.1\r\nHost: www.whatever.com\r\nConnection: Close\r\n\r\n

     

    If you use the HTTP iApp template, entitled 'f5.http', that's included with your BIG-IP system, it'll set up the monitor for you. You just need to provide the FQDN (www.whatever.com), and the requested resource (the default is "/", and in your case you'd change it to "/default.aspx").

     

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Matt_Breedlove_
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Jun 19, 2014

Is that URL the external address of one of your VIP's that has servers behind it?

 

If so and you want to make the sure that the VIP only keeps healthy member servers in the vip for whatever.com, then you will want to setup a monitor that hits the internal server directly If they only server one site and say it is internally served on port 80 then your monitor send string for this particular vip would be

 

GET /default.aspx