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Create a Service Monitor

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Use a Service Monitor to track the health of servers in a backend pool. If a request response does not match the expected result, the server can be removed from the pool to stop it from receiving new requests.

You can use a Service Monitor when creating a pool or add one to an existing pool in the Monitors option.

Three check methods are configured by default:

  • TCP-monitor;
  • HTTP-monitor;
  • HTTPS-monitor.

Create a Service Monitor

  1. From the Control panel, open the Cloud Director panel: in the top menu, click Products → VMware-based cloud → the Cloud Director section.
  2. Open the virtual data center page.
  3. Go to the Networking → Edges section.
  4. Open the page of the required Edge.
  5. Click SERVICES.
  6. Open the Load Balancer → Service Monitoring tab.
  7. Click +.
  8. Enter a name for the new method.
  9. In the Interval field, enter the interval for sending requests.
  10. In the Timeout field, enter the response timeout.
  11. In the Max Retries field, enter the maximum number of request attempts.
  12. In the Type field, select HTTPS.
  13. In the Expected field, enter the expected status code — 200(OK).
  14. In the Method field, select GET.
  15. Enter the request URL.
  16. Click Keep.