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Chris_Phillips
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Oct 03, 2006

voyeuristic pool monitoring

Hi all,     Unless i'm very much mistaken there is no way at all within the LTM's to make them snat their monitor traffic. As such whilst we can happily use a snatpool or such on a virtual serve...
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hoolio
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Oct 04, 2006
I was thinking of a standalone unit as far as the source IP's used for monitoring versus load balancing traffic...

 

 

If the relatively static testing functionality of HTTP monitors isn't getting far enough into your application (for example you are only able to check the front end web server, but want to check if the app server or db are responding), you could consider using a script on your app server which performs a more complicated test and then have it update a page on your front end web server. You could then configure a monitor that checks for an up/down message in the page content.

 

 

Aaron