Testing the F5 itself with a simple test

Thanks for coming back to me, At this stage I'm just after something simple but one stage more than a TCP socket check; I'm monitoring the various VS internally via OOB, I'm just trying to establish whether the F5 or indeed the entire DC is dead. I had seen some icontrol samples which did bring back some interesting stats, but whilst I'm an irule newb; I'm a total icontrol virgin and just need something "quick and dirty" up and running for a couple of weeks which isn't going to break the bank in terms of resources (my site is not totally live yet and I don't know what my production volumes are going to be like for certain).

 

 

I'm going to give this a go and see how I get on, unless anyone has any better ideas?