LTM External Monitors: The Basics
LTM's external monitors are incredibly flexible, fairly easy to implement, and especially useful for monitoring applications for which there is no built-in monitor template. They give you the ability...
Published Jan 25, 2008
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Stripping the ::ffff from the IPv6 address is only effective for route domain %1. If your nodes are in any other route domain, you are still stuck.
Ideally, you need to use the IPv6 address as supplied in the command line parameter, so your script will work whether you use route domains or not. The way to do this is to turn off globbing and put square brackets around the address:
curl -fNsg http://[${IP}]:${PORT}${URI}