Exchange 2013- Health Monitors

Hi Eddy,

you have to use a dedicated Pool for each single service, pointing to the same set of servers. Then use proper health monitors for each of your services and bind them to the corresponding pools. Then point the individual virtual servers to the corresponding pools...

If you want to monitor each single web based service (e.g. OWA, ECP, EAS, Autodiscover, etc.) independently, then you have to use dedicated pools for each of the WWW-based sub-services in combination with proper health monitors. The request routing between the different WWW-based pools could be done with either an iRule or by using LTM Policies. A simple iRule for this task would look like that...

when HTTP_REQUEST {
    set low_uri [string tolower [HTTP::uri]]
    if { ( $low_uri starts_with "/owa" ) or 
         ( $low_uri starts_with "/ecp" ) } then {
        pool Exchange2013-OWA
    } elseif { $low_uri starts_with "/autodiscover" } then {
        pool Exchange2013-Autodiscover
    } elseif { $low_uri starts_with "/microsoft-server-ativesync" } then {
        pool Exchange2013-EAS
    } elseif { ( $low_uri starts_with "/rpc" ) or
               ( $low_uri starts_with "/oab" ) or
               ( $low_uri starts_with "/ews" ) } then {
        pool Exchange2013-OA
    } else {
        HTTP::redirect "/owa/"
    }
}

Cheers, Kai