# How to create a External Monitor?? Please help

**URL:** <https://community.f5.com/t/how-to-create-a-external-monitor-please-help/49645>\
**Category:** Technical Forums\
**Tags:** devops, big-ip, external-monitor, health-monitor, ltm\
**Created:** [January 8, 2016, 6:47pm UTC](https://community.f5.com/t/how-to-create-a-external-monitor-please-help/49645 "2016-01-08T18:47:53Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![Jinshu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Jinshu](https://community.f5.com/u/Jinshu)\
**Post date:** [January 8, 2016, 6:47pm UTC](https://community.f5.com/t/how-to-create-a-external-monitor-please-help/49645/1 "2016-01-08T18:47:53Z")

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Hi,

how to create an external monitor for below curl command. Below curl command giving an output “200” when running manually from F5

```tcl
curl --header "Content-Type: text/xml;charset=UTF-8" --header "SOAPAction:http://mybase.xyz.com/mybaseService/HealthCheck" --data "" -o /dev/null -s -w %{http_code} http://servername:8080/mybaseWS/mybaseService

```

Please help.

-Jinshu

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**Author:** ![samstep](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea666f/32.png) [@samstep](https://community.f5.com/u/samstep)\
**Post date:** [January 11, 2016, 1:15pm UTC](https://community.f5.com/t/how-to-create-a-external-monitor-please-help/49645/2 "2016-01-11T13:15:50Z")

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Hi Jinshu,

Here are some reference points for you:

> **[DevCentral - An F5 Technical Community](https://community.f5.com/)**
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> DevCentral is an online technical community where engineers and practitioners collaborate, share knowledge, and solve problems related to F5 technologies and industry trends.

> **[DevCentral - An F5 Technical Community](https://community.f5.com/)**
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> DevCentral is an online technical community where engineers and practitioners collaborate, share knowledge, and solve problems related to F5 technologies and industry trends.

Hope this helps

Regards,

Sam