<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 1:03 PM, Ryan Novosielski <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:novosirj@umdnj.edu">novosirj@umdnj.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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Steve Holmes wrote:<br>
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</div><div class="im">> On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 12:42 PM, Ralph Mitchell<br>
</div><div class="im">> <<a href="mailto:ralphmitchell@gmail.com">ralphmitchell@gmail.com</a> <mailto:<a href="mailto:ralphmitchell@gmail.com">ralphmitchell@gmail.com</a>>> wrote:<br>
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> I used to have some scripts that would make SOAP requests to an F5<br>
> to get the pools and pool member status. I no longer have access to<br>
> that system, but I may have a backup at home.<br>
><br>
> I based my scripts on a bunch of example programs in the F5 SDK.<br>
> IIRC, I altered a couple of the perl scripts to output lines like:<br>
><br>
> pool1 server1 OK<br>
> pool1 server2 DOWN<br>
> etc...<br>
><br>
> Then you just run around a loop reading the lines and sending BB<br>
> status messages.<br>
><br>
> As long as your F5 is checking the servers occasionally, this<br>
> approach works OK.<br>
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> Ralph Mitchell<br>
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> On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 12:07 PM, Steve Holmes <<a href="mailto:sholmes42@mac.com">sholmes42@mac.com</a><br>
</div><div class="im">> <mailto:<a href="mailto:sholmes42@mac.com">sholmes42@mac.com</a>>> wrote:<br>
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> Greetings, I'm monitoring several Solaris 10 servers which are<br>
> behind an F5 load balancer. One of the features of the F5 is<br>
> that it answers pings for all of the hosts behind it, even if<br>
> they are all down. Has anyone devised a method of testing the<br>
> servers for being alive in this context? There are no other<br>
> network based tests being done. Yes, all of the other tests<br>
> eventually go purple in Xymon, but we'd like to know that the<br>
> hosts are down when that happens.<br>
><br>
> Thanks,<br>
> Steve Holmes<br>
> ITaP/Purdue University<br>
><br>
><br>
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> Thanks! I'll check with the F5 admin to see if this might be doable.<br>
> Steve<br>
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</div>It would not surprise me though if this is exactly what the F5 devmon<br>
template gives you via SNMP. Might be worth a check. If you just<br>
download the tar and look at the templates directory under F5, you'll<br>
the OID's file should tell you what's monitored. Hate to see duplication<br>
of effort. :)</blockquote><div><br></div><div>You may well be right. I couldn't tell, back then, because my ex-employer had a habit of blocking SNMP traffic. That might have changed now that they're under new ownership... :)</div>
<div><br></div><div>Ralph Mitchell </div></div>