# TACACS health monitor ?

**URL:** <https://community.f5.com/t/tacacs-health-monitor/49072>\
**Category:** Technical Forums\
**Tags:** ltm, application-delivery\
**Created:** [February 8, 2017, 4:53pm UTC](https://community.f5.com/t/tacacs-health-monitor/49072 "2017-02-08T16:53:26Z")\
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**Author:** ![Gudalam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/7bcc69/32.png) [@Gudalam](https://community.f5.com/u/Gudalam)\
**Post date:** [February 8, 2017, 4:53pm UTC](https://community.f5.com/t/tacacs-health-monitor/49072/1 "2017-02-08T16:53:26Z")

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Hi,

We are looking for TACACS health monitor, could you help us on this. I am unable to find any documentation on TACACS monitor to monitor NAC based solutions

Regards, Madhu

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**Author:** ![Vijay\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/4bbf92/32.png) [@Vijay\_E](https://community.f5.com/u/Vijay_E)\
**Post date:** [February 9, 2017, 1:03am UTC](https://community.f5.com/t/tacacs-health-monitor/49072/2 "2017-02-09T01:03:35Z")

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You can use icmp/tcp monitors. If you need to login using a specific username/password, I am guessing you would have to come up with a script to complete the monitoring. See this [thread](https://devcentral.f5.com/questions/tacacs-health-monitoring).

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**Author:** ![DavidZhou](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f19dbf/32.png) [@DavidZhou](https://community.f5.com/u/DavidZhou)\
**Post date:** [April 24, 2020, 3:05pm UTC](https://community.f5.com/t/tacacs-health-monitor/49072/3 "2020-04-24T15:05:52Z")

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Use TCP 49 to monitor TACACS Server