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rzup_75581
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Jul 23, 2011

Health Monitoring: building a receive string

I can't seem to get my http receive string health monitor to work: probably because the server responds with invalid hostname error (I discerned this from telnetting to it from the F5). I can't see ho...
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Hamish
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Jul 24, 2011
Nope. iRules are used for doing 'stuff' to a connection from a client to the server behind (Or the response).

Monitors are either 'simple' ones configured from the monitors GUI in the web interfaces, or more complex ones that you can write in perl or bash (Called external monitors) that can do whatever you like.

To configure a simple monitor for a web server that needs the host head, use something like 


GET / HTTP/1.0\r\nhost: whetever.your.fqdn.is\r\n\r\n

in the HTTP request field.

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