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lucqui_350705
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Feb 06, 2018

Create a monitor and attach it to a pool upon creation through iControl POST

I cannot see a way to create a custom monitor using iControl before creating a pool. I would like to do both using the same script. This is what I have to create my pool: curl -sku admin:admin $f5...
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amintej
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Feb 21, 2018

Hello,

This payload create and HTTP monitor, $f5_uri=

'{"name": "icontrolmon", "send": "GET /server \\r\\n", "recv": "OK"}'

When you create a pool you can include your monitor name in the payload

'{"name": "icontrol", "monitor": "/Common/icontolmon"}'