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Kevin_G__50752
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Dec 17, 2012

what does default http monitor actually check?

We're a little confused, any clarification would be helpful:   The default http monitor says it checks for "GET /" and there's no receive string. So it's not checking the HTTP status code (200, 4...
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What_Lies_Bene1's avatar
What_Lies_Bene1
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Dec 17, 2012
You're correct, without a receive string specified it's literally just checking the service is up and in that case there's no different between it and the TCP check. Of course, if you do use a receive string it is different as the HTTP monitor will do some extra formatting of the request and correctly parse the response as HTTP whereas the TCP check will not.