Starting from the top, how to monitor IIS service on a win2003 server

Hi Fred,

 

 

Have you taken a look at our IIS BigIP deployment guide at:

 

 

http://www.f5.com/solutions/deployment/iis_bigip9_dg.html

 

 

The health monitor is a good place to start. You can always get more in-depth for your monitors and a good resource is our manual and take a look at our Configuring Monitors Chapter at:

 

 

https://tech.f5.com/home/bigip-next/manuals/bigip9_4/bigip9_4config/BIGIP_LTM_CONFIG_GD_9_4-13-1.html

 

 

The log-in is free you just need to sign up.

 

 

Let me know how it goes

 

 

- James

 

Hi James,

 

 

Thanks for the responce. I've looked at the monitors, but I still don't see anything specific to use to monitor an NT server. For example, lets say that I have the Symantec Antivirus service running on a server and and want to stop load balancing if that service should stop. Is thier any guide at all for this scenario?

 

 

Thanks,

 

 

Fred

Hi Fred,

 

 

If you can get status of the service via a get statement this is one way to then make a load balancing decsion based on that. So when you build say an HTTP monitor you can specify in the GET string something like:

 

 

"GET /service/service_up.html"

 

 

Annother option is configure a monitor to check a script or do a SOAP call. For both those I'd recommend taking a look at the monitor section in the Configuration Guide. For the 9.4.2 config guide to to:

 

 

https://tech.f5.com/home/bigip-next/manuals/bigip9_4/bigip9_4config/BIGIP_LTM_CONFIG_GD_9_4-13-1.htmlwp1209612

 

 

- James