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- The_BhattmanNimbostratusYou can do this with alias address and alias service port. Thus you can associate a monitor to a pool member, but the monitor could be monitoring another server. For example let's say you have a pool member 192.168.12.32:80, but it relies on an app component on a server 192.168.1.22:22222 TCP that is not behind the LTM.
- Jeremy_Bridges_NimbostratusThat's not quite what I was planning on. You are right that I should use the alias port to monitor a different application, but, I want to see if the F5 can send requests to an external monitoring agent. Contained in the call to this external agent would be the application's port. Then the agent could call the actual application that is being load balanced and tell the F5 that it is functioning properly.
- The_BhattmanNimbostratusI think it's possible with the external monitor. However, I don't have an application that behaves that way so I can't really give you anything more then what I posted on http://devcentral.f5.com/Default.aspx?tabid=53&forumid=32&postid=61530&view=topic
- Jeremy_Bridges_NimbostratusI ended up using an external monitor for this purpose. I now have a similar question to the first one but for pool names. Is there a way to pass in the pool name of the pool member being monitored? Perhaps as a command line argument (see attachment)?
- david_sandersonNimbostratusDid you ever find a solution for sending the monitor the pool name, I have a similar situation that would save on a lot of maintenance if we could pass in the pool name.
- Jeremy_Bridges_NimbostratusNope, we never did. We ended up creating a monitor profile for every pool. Very ugly. Hopefully, the F5 folks add this functionality sometime.
- hooleylistCirrostratusThat seems like a useful feature. If you'd like to see a new feature added to the product, the best way to make the request is to open a case with F5 Support and get a change request number for the request for enhancement. Other people can add their cases to the request to raise the visibility of the RFE.
- JRahmAdminHow would you pass the pool name? Would the monitor pass the pool name of the pool it is associated to? Wouldn't that require unique monitors anyway? Maybe I'm misunderstanding, but I'm having a hard time conceptualizing this.
- hooleylistCirrostratusHey Citizen,
- JRahmAdminThat makes sense at a node level.