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A site wishes to use an external monitor. Other than what is coded in the monitor script, what information must be configured on the BIG-IP for the monitor to be functional? (Choose two.)
The correct answer is C. BIG-IP node or member the result are to be applied to. Must know all D. BIG-IP must know the name of the program.. For an external monitor to function on BIG-IP, the system must know the name of the external program to execute and which node or pool member should receive the resulting health status.
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A site wishes to use an external monitor. Other than what is coded in the monitor script, what information must be configured on the BIG-IP for the monitor to be functional? (Choose two.)
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- ABIG-IP services that are running on the system to be tested.
- BBIG-IP the IP addresses of the devices that will be tested. Must know which
- CBIG-IP node or member the result are to be applied to. Must know all
- DBIG-IP must know the name of the program.
- EBIG-IP must know which function the program is going to test. Must know
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Why each option
For an external monitor to function on BIG-IP, the system must know the name of the external program to execute and which node or pool member should receive the resulting health status.
The BIG-IP services running on the monitored system are not configured on BIG-IP itself - determining what to probe is the responsibility of the script logic, not a separate BIG-IP configuration parameter.
The IP address and port of the monitored node are automatically passed to the external script at runtime via environment variables ($NODE_IP and $NODE_PORT) and do not require explicit configuration outside the monitor assignment.
The monitor must be associated with a specific node or pool member so BIG-IP knows which object to mark up or down based on the script's exit code - without this association BIG-IP has no target to apply the health status to.
BIG-IP must be configured with the filename and path of the external monitor script so it knows which program to execute during each monitor interval, as this is a required field in the external monitor object configuration.
The function or behavior the program tests is entirely determined by the script code itself and is not a configurable parameter in the BIG-IP external monitor object.
Concept tested: BIG-IP LTM external monitor required configuration
Source: https://techdocs.f5.com/en-us/bigip-16-0-0/big-ip-local-traffic-manager-monitors-reference/external-monitors.html
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