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royster_128009
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Oct 03, 2003

Using iControl with Health Monitors

Hi,     I have been using BIGIPs at our company for several of our customers for a couple of years.     I have written custom monitors using perl before testing appilication avai...
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Joe_Pruitt
Oct 28, 2003
You could modify the script to query the state/availability of the node and only make the iControl call if the state/availbility has changed. That will result in an additional call for conditions when the state changes, but will result in only a query when the state is the same. Queries do not result in log messages being generated so you will only get log entries for the conditions when state changed.

 

 

-Joe