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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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Young_25175
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Jun 19, 2014
Thanks for all your answers. I tried what Dayne suggested since it's the closest syntax to the HTTP GET when I did a wireshark capture of me browsing to that website, http://www.tdsb.on.ca/default.aspx. In my browser capture, I see the 2 files that I'm looking for 'favicon.ico' for status up and favicon2.ico for status down. However, when I did a tcpdump of what the F5 monitor is doing, I don't get the same HTTP response and therefor don't see those files so the pool is marked down.