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Julio_Navarro
Cirrostratus
May 30, 2025using '--resolve' in the pool monitor health check
Hello, I am checking if it's possible to add the option '--resolve' in the health check monitor and avoid using a custom monitor (which consumes too much memory). For example: curl -kvs http...
VGF5
Cumulonimbus
May 30, 2025You can’t use the --resolve option directly with the built-in BIG-IP health monitors like HTTP, HTTPS, or TCP. These monitors don’t allow custom curl options to be passed in. If you want to use --resolve—which lets you manually map a hostname to a specific IP address for the request—you’ll need to create a custom external monitor script. In that script, you can call curl with the --resolve flag and any other options you need.
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