NetScaler health monitors are used to determine the current status of a Virtual IP and redirect the traffic.

Procedure

  1. Log in to the Netscaler load balancer and select NetScaler > Traffic Management > Load Balancing > Monitors.
  2. Click Add and provide the required information. Leave the default when nothing is specified.
  3. Repeat steps 1 and 2 for each row of information in the table below.

Results

VMware Aria Operations Analytics configuration:

Name

Type

Interval

Timeout

RETRIES

Send String

Receive String

DEST. PORT

secure

vrops_http

HTTP

16 sec.

15 sec.

3

GET /

(200|204|301)

80

no

vrops_https

HTTP-EVC

16 sec.

15 sec.

3

GET /suite-api/api/deployment/node/status?services=api&services=adminui&services=ui

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Note: For older versions of vROPS from 6.6.1 to 7.5 please use the following URL call, as starting from vROps 8.0 status API enhanced to track separate services status.

GET /suite-api/api/deployment/node/status \r\n

ONLINE

443

yes

Example

Example:


Configure monitor

close up of configure monitor