Health monitoring (heartbeat)

An important property of an LB is the ability to perform health monitoring checks (heartbeats) on each Mobile Gateway server.

By using health monitors, the LB verifies the server response and checks for any network problems that can prevent a client from reaching a server. The LB can then place the server in or out of service, and make reliable load-balancing and high-availability decisions.

A common and recommended health monitor is HTTP GET Request. To configure the http monitor, use the following dedicated health monitoring page:/mgw/MobileServices/healthcheck

where:

• Expected HTTP return code: 200
• Expected response message: OK

Example: Health monitoring

This example shows how to set the health monitoring using the F5 BIG-IP LTM.

• HTTP GET health monitor Type is set.