A10 Network and Siebel HTTP Health Check @ Application Tier

Question

Hello,
I have a simple question around using the A10 network appliance and performing a simple HTTP Get Health, from the third party load balance, check against the ScBroker component. For example, within the A10 we would create a check check using the following:  This is for third party load balancing at the application tier.  I have performed this type of health check on other competitor devices such as F5, Cisco etc.
//IP Address of Siebel Application Server/Siebel Enterprise Name/ScBroker.
When I test the below HTTP Get health check both inside and outside the load balancer (using any web browser) I receive about 15-20 errors before receiving a ScBroker Status "Ok" message.  This is a older version of Siebel (8.0.0.12) and I have double checked the Connection Forward algorithm for SCBroker which is set to "LL" least laden. The only other option would be to perform a health check at the TCP (SCBroker port 2321) layer which can cause multiple LB errors and leave connections missed at the port 2321 SCBroker layer. Essentially, A HTTP Get Health check at the application layer is the way to go. Has anyone experienced this error on the HTTP Get Health check?  If so, what was the resolution for the health check.

Answer 1

Hi zryan,
Your question is not clear enough.
If you want to use create client for transporting HTTP or SMTP messages, you can utilize these built-in classes in .Net Framework:
WebClient,
HttpWebRequest Class
SmtpClient Class
If you mean you want to intercept the network messages using C# code, please note the topic in this thread:
Contributors: How to avoid aiding
the development of malicious code
.Net Framework doesn't contain built-in objects for you to automatically detect the protocol of the network message.
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