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

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

vRealize 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:


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