Testing the F5 itself with a simple test

Hmm...

 

 

You have a conundrum... If your iRule fires first, you still don't know if the subsequent ones are working... They could be failing too... WHich means that you're only testing connectivity to a VS... At which point, you could get away with just doing a tcp level check... And then close the connection...

 

 

If it fires last, then you're chewing up CPU that you didn't need of course :)

 

 

How fancy do you want to get? You could always create an iRule that just counts the connections (Saving the info in a table - Assuming v10)... And then a separate VS that you can get the stats from... But that won't tell you anything if there's no traffic of course... But you could test that, and then if the counters don't increment do a real test :)

 

 

 

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