Thank you for the tip on nc. When I execute the command as listed it works fine. When I set it up as a monitor is fails. I can only believe I'm incorrectly formating the receive string field. I've attached a screen shot of the Monitor send string and receive string.
[admin@lb2cmgmt:Active] ~ echo -ne "GET /auth/?checkall=true HTTP/1.1\r\nConnection: Close\r\nHost: \r\n\r\n" | nc 10.20.62.65 8080
HTTP/1.1 200 Ok
Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2008 00:20:25 GMT
Server: AKO Monitoring Server/v1.0
Connection: close
SM_CHECK: PASS
Content-Type: text/html
Monitor Output
PASS
[admin@lb2cmgmt:Active] ~