HTTPS monitor on a specific port

Well, if that doesnt work, there one thing you can try, creating a custom monitor using "cURL" it some times so happens that the cert negotiation of the openssl installed doesnt work well. In that case, when we set a send string and the string is encrypted, the server is not able to undertand it and vice versa this can be a problem on the server side as well...

I have tried this on a 9.X not sure if you have the option to create one on the 4.5 version but you can write a shell script and call it from you monitor

Before trying this out, you can manually try out if this will work, from the CLI of the bigip execute

Say your send string is /test.html

And your recieve string is "I am Up"

The member IP is 1.1.1.10 and port is 4433

execute this

curl -k https://1.1.1.10:4433/test.html

The "-k" specifies anyauth mechanism (Real Curl man page for details)

Hit Enter, If you get " I am up' then you should think of going for this solution

You can go to /usr/bin/monitors

Use VI editor and name it some thing may be "https-curl"

!/bin/sh
TMPFILE="/var/run/`basename ${0}`.${NODE}_${PORT}.pid"
 kill of the last instance of this monitor if hung and log current pid
if [ -f $TMPFILE ]
then
   kill -9 `cat $TMPFILE` > /dev/null 2>&1
fi
echo "$$" > $TMPFILE

NODE=`echo ${1} | sed 's/::ffff://'`
PORT=${2}

 send request & check for expected response
curl -k http://${NODE}:${PORT}${URI} | grep -i "${RECV}" 2>&1 > /dev/null

 mark node UP if expected response was received
if [ $? -eq 0 ]
then
    echo "UP"
fi

rm -f $PIDFILE
exit

You can modify the Curl to suit your needs...

make this executable for every one using chmod 777 /usr/bin/monitors/https-curl

Once you have the script in place you can now call it for your custom monitor

 
 monitor mycustommonitor { 
 run "https-curl" 
 URI "/test.html" 
 RECV "I am UP" 
 } 
 

Associate this with your pool which you are having the problem, you can test the work of the monitor by exporting the variables and then using sh -xv to execute this

Hope this helps