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Darpow_19951
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Jul 01, 2011

WGET for Health Monitor

A requestor has asked that I set up a custom health monitor to do a WGET http request to his servers. I am new to F5 LTM, but have tried several times to set this up for him as a regular GET and as a ...
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hooleylist
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Jul 01, 2011
Hi Darpow,

 

 

You shouldn't need to use WGET to monitor a web server. You can use an inbuilt HTTP monitor to send just about any static request. Here's an example send string for 10.2.0+:

 

 

GET /ClusterHealthCheck/index.html HTTP/1.1\r\nHost: \r\nConnection: Close\r\n\r\n

 

 

Set the receive string as:

 

 

success

 

 

For more info, you can check this page:

 

http://devcentral.f5.com/wiki/default.aspx/AdvDesignConfig/TroubleshootingLtmMonitors.html

 

 

Aaron