Monitoring TCP Applications #01
LTM has built-in application health monitor templates for many TCP-based application protocols (FTP, HTTP, HTTPS, IMAP, LDAP, MSSQL, NNTP, POP3, RADIUS, RTSP, RPC, SASP, SIP, SMB, SMTP, SOAP). I...
Published Oct 30, 2007
Version 1.0
For many legacy back end applications, you must use a tcp half open type monitor. These applications often expect their clients to open a single connection and keep it open for long periods of time (essentially forever). A full connection causes these apps to eventually fill up their connection table. Application performance gets slower and slower and eventually the service needs to be restarted.