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frankadelic
frankadelic

Reputation: 20803

Creating an ASP.NET diagnostics page to be pinged by Load Balancer

Our server operations team has asked the web development team (ASP.NET) to provide a URL in our application, which the load balancer can ping to perform health checks.

What should be executed on this page? I think we should attempt a database connection to ensure connectivity between the web and database. Anything else?

Upvotes: 3

Views: 2833

Answers (2)

JonVD
JonVD

Reputation: 4268

Really you want to check the database configuration, asp.net configuration, web.config and any other web services or dependencies.

Here is a really great codeproject that will get you started with minimal coding.

Upvotes: 2

Justin Niessner
Justin Niessner

Reputation: 245419

Your health-check page should ping any external dependencies in your application and make sure everything is responding properly. That includes:

  • Databases

  • Web Services

  • Dynamically Loaded DLLs

  • COM+ Components

If all the tests pass, then the health-check page should respond properly so the load balancer can use that server.

Upvotes: 1

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