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NzYme_68513's avatar
NzYme_68513
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Oct 22, 2010

Restart a service when a pool member is marked 'down'?

Hi. I'm new to the F5 community. I'm reading all I can and I'm lucky enough to have some hardware to run small tests on as well. My manager is asking me if the F5 can start a windows service once t...
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hwidjaja_37598
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Oct 22, 2010
You might be able to use OpenPegasus to give F5 ability to 'talk' to windows server using WMI and let syslog-ng trigger the script when a member is deemed down. The script should use WMI to start the service.

 

 

Pegasus is an open-source implementationof the DMTF CIM and WBEM standards. For more info, go to http://www.openpegasus.org/