On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 12:42 PM, Ralph Mitchell <ralphmitchell at gmail.com>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 <sholmes42 at mac.com> 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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