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JRahm
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Oct 10, 2005

Passive monitoring with iRules

Our application folks have an app that until now has been behind a LocalDirector, which does passive monitoring. Now that they are behind the BigIP in the lab environment, their error logs are fillin...
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drteeth_127330
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Oct 10, 2005
I don't think that will work. icmp processing occurs before virtual server matching, so you can't write an iRule to override how the icmp is handled. That being said, if the failed connection is going through the virtual server, then you should get an LB_FAILED event. Or is it a BIG-IP tcp monitor that's failing?