On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 12:42 PM, Ralph Mitchell <user-00a5e44c48c0@xymon.invalid>wrote:
I used to have some scripts that would make SOAP requests to an F5 to get
the pools and pool member status. I no longer have access to that system,
but I may have a backup at home.
I based my scripts on a bunch of example programs in the F5 SDK. IIRC, I
altered a couple of the perl scripts to output lines like:
pool1 server1 OK
pool1 server2 DOWN
etc...
Then you just run around a loop reading the lines and sending BB status
messages.
As long as your F5 is checking the servers occasionally, this approach
works OK.
Ralph Mitchell
On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 12:07 PM, Steve Holmes <user-ec1bf77b1b44@xymon.invalid> wrote:
Greetings, I'm monitoring several Solaris 10 servers which are behind an
F5 load balancer. One of the features of the F5 is that it answers pings for
all of the hosts behind it, even if they are all down. Has anyone devised a
method of testing the servers for being alive in this context? There are no
other network based tests being done. Yes, all of the other tests eventually
go purple in Xymon, but we'd like to know that the hosts are down when that
happens.
Thanks,
Steve Holmes
ITaP/Purdue University
Thanks! I'll check with the F5 admin to see if this might be doable.
Steve
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