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wixxyl_98682's avatar
wixxyl_98682
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Sep 17, 2012

Syntax on custom health check

All,     Trying to set up basic health check to see if my servers are going down or not. I've built a pool with the appropriate nodes, and applied a health check to them looking for some spec...
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nathe's avatar
nathe
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Sep 18, 2012
wixxyl

 

 

By default the bigip will use http version 0.9 for monitor strings but I'd recommend a http1.0 or 1.1 request. How about if you try:

 

 

GET /ews/status.html HTTP/1.0\r\n\r\n

 

 

or..

 

 

GET /ews/status.html HTTP/1.1\r\nHost: host.domain.com\r\nConnection: Close\r\n\r\n

 

 

BTW, the RFC for http 1.1 requires a host header.

 

 

See the following docs for more help:

 

 

http://support.f5.com/kb/en-us/solutions/public/2000/100/sol2167.html?sr=23939294 (Constructing HTTP requests for use with the HTTP or HTTPS application health monitor)

 

http://support.f5.com/kb/en-us/solutions/public/3000/200/sol3224.html?sr=23939294 (HTTP health checks may fail even though the node is responding correctly)

 

 

I'd use telnet / curl as well to see if the receive strings are being seen too.

 

 

Hope this helps

 

N