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BMeyering_10972
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May 22, 2012

VMWARE VIEW health monitor SG/Connection broker mapping

We have F5 Big IP 3600 LTM running verision 11.1 HF2       The F5 currently is acting as a front-end for the VMWare security servers which do the authentication. Let’s say 2 physical server...
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Paul_Pindell's avatar
Paul_Pindell
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May 22, 2012

 

 

In VMware View 5.1 the receive string for the HTTPS Monitor needs to be updated to "VMware.*View Portal". (without he quote marks) This string will work for versions 4.6-5.1

 

 

 

We had to add the regex .* between VMware and View because the version 5.1 success page title changed to VMwareView Portal.

 

 

 

This receive string will test to make sure that both the security server and the paired connection server are both up and functioning. If either of them are not functioning then the monitor will fail.

 

 

 

Paul