Manual Chapter :
Monitors Tasks
Applies To:
Show VersionsBIG-IP LTM
- 11.6.5, 11.6.4, 11.6.3, 11.6.2, 11.6.1
Creating an SNMP monitor
Create an SNMP monitor that GTM™
LTM®
can use to monitor a third-party server running
SNMP.
Creating a custom monitor
Before creating a custom monitor, you must decide on a monitor type.
You can create a custom monitor when the values defined in a pre-configured monitor
do not meet your needs, or no pre-configured monitor exists for the type of monitor you
are creating.
Important: When defining values for custom monitors, make sure
you avoid using any values that are on the list of reserved keywords. For more
information, see solution number 3653 (for version 9.0 systems and later) on the AskF5™ technical support web site.
Deleting a monitor
Prior to deleting a monitor, you must remove all existing monitor associations.
You can delete obsolete or unused monitors.
Note: You can manage only
those monitors that you have permission to manage, based on your user role and
partition access
assignment.
The monitor is deleted.
Displaying a monitor
You can display a monitor and view the settings and values.
Note: You
can manage only those monitors that you have permission to manage, based on your
user role and partition access assignment.
You can view the settings and values for the monitor.
Creating an HTTP monitor
Before creating a monitor, you must decide on a monitor type.
A custom HTTP monitor enables you to send a command to a
server and examine that server's response, thus ensuring that it is serving appropriate
content.
Note: An HTTP monitor can monitor Outlook® Web Access (OWA) in Microsoft® Exchange
Server 2007 and Microsoft®
SharePoint® 2007 web sites that require NT LAN Manager (NTLM)
authentication. NTLM authentication requires a send string that complies with
HTTP/1.1, a user name, and a password.
The HTTP monitor is configured to monitor HTTP traffic.
Creating an HTTPS monitor
Before creating a monitor, you must decide on a monitor
type.
A custom HTTPS monitor enables you to verify the Hypertext
Transfer Protocol Secure (HTTPS) service by attempting to receive specific content from
a web page protected by Secure Socket Layer (SSL) security.
Note: An HTTP monitor can monitor Outlook® Web Access
(OWA) in Microsoft® Exchange Server 2007 and Microsoft®
SharePoint® 2007 web sites that require NT LAN Manager (NTLM)
authentication. NTLM authentication requires a send string that complies with
HTTP/1.1, a user name, and a password.
The HTTPS monitor is configured to monitor HTTPS traffic.
Associate the HTTPS monitor with a server, pool, pool member, or node.
Configuring a monitor for adaptive response time monitoring
Determine the type of monitor you want to create, and for which custom monitor you
want to enable adaptive response time monitoring.
Enable adaptive response time monitoring when you want the BIG-IP® system to update the state of a resource based on the deviation of the
latency of the monitor probe from the mean latency of a monitor probe for that service.
Importing a file for an external monitor
Using the BIG-IP ®Configuration utility, you can import a file from another system to use for creating an external monitor.
After importing a file onto the system, you must create a local traffic external monitor, specifying the file that you imported.