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Create Service Monitor
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Create Service Monitor

With Service Monitor, you can monitor the status of servers in the backend pool. If the response to a request is not as expected, the server can be taken out of the pool so that it does not receive new requests.

Service Monitor can be used when creating a pool or added to an existing pool in the Monitors option.

By default, three validation methods are configured:

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

Create Service Monitor⁠

  1. From Control Panel, open the Cloud Director panel: Cloud powered by VMware → Cloud Director.
  2. Open the virtual data center page.
  3. Go to Networking → Edges.
  4. Open the page of the desired Edge.
  5. Press SERVICES.
  6. Open the Load Balancer → Service Monitoring tab.
  7. Press +.
  8. Enter a name for the new method.
  9. In the Interval field, enter the interval at which requests will be sent.
  10. In the Timeout field, enter the timeout to wait for a response.
  11. In the Max Retries field, enter the maximum number of attempts to send the request.
  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 URL of the request.
  16. Press Keep.