For more information regarding the security incident at F5, the actions we are taking to address it, and our ongoing efforts to protect our customers, click here.

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
management
monitoring
news
tech tip
Patrick_Chang_7's avatar
Patrick_Chang_7
Historic F5 Account
Oct 31, 2007
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.