michael_trott_1
Jul 02, 2008Nimbostratus
indepth analysis of comms for health check
hi all,
am performing basic health monitoring on a pool, confirming a http 200 from the pool, problem that is now appearing is that while the front end of the app is up, eg 200 returned, the backend is actually down and unable to handle requests.
The servers being monitored in the pool now display a nice error page describing that the server's backend is down, and lists the particular funciton that is down, eg DB.. , but still supplies a 200.
How could i monitor these 200's for an actual failure, i'm assuming an iRule is the way to go, still maintaing the current healthcheck to confirm actaul webservers are up, then use an irule to check the returned pages for particular fields, if they find, somehow mark the server as down???
any ideas or can point me in the right direction?
thanks