Hi, I gather from your question you want to request content (an image) from the database to keep the application pools warmed-up in addition to knowing the server is alive and well?
Have you given the Application Initialization extension for IIS 7.5 a look<http://learn.iis.net/page.aspx/1089/iis-80-application-initialization/>? This would allow you to be independent from the F5 keep-alive configuration. http://www.iis.net/download/ApplicationInitialization Regards, Wes From: ozmoss-boun...@ozmoss.com [mailto:ozmoss-boun...@ozmoss.com] On Behalf Of Nigel Witherdin Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2012 1:18 AM To: OzMoss Subject: F5 Keep-Alive Images Hey Guys, Quick question - I have been hassling the network team here change the F5 we use for load-balancing our server farm to stop using the ping-response from servers as the keep-alive for directing traffic to them, and switch over to retrieving images for each web application and using these as the keep-alive - the images I have suggested using are stored in the Style Library (so in the site collections database). They contend that they have not been able to get the URI's to these images to load from the F5. I expect this is because they are not authenticating the request, but before I chase this down with them, I wanted to confirm that the config I am proposing is appropriate. What do you think? Have you set this up before / do you think using images stored in the content database for keep-alives sounds like a good idea? Cheers Nigel
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