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Craig_Gibb_1781
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Oct 19, 2014

Custom http monitor and http error 500

Hi i am trying to fix a custom monitor that is for a load balanced https offloaded webservice , the service has a status api request that is called using /cpqserver/api/status using http. That then r...
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Hannes_Rapp
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Oct 20, 2014

You can certainly do that without specifying the HTTP "Host" parameter. However, by doing that, the health-check sent by F5 might be served by a different vHost in end-server. To put it short, it depends on vHost config in end-servers and how the listeners are configured.

You can emulate the health-check from F5 with cURL or WGET. This should give you a hint whether you can get this health-check working without touching the vHost configs in end-servers.

Test with Host header specified: 

curl -vH "Host:www.mydomain.com" http://end-server-ip:port/cpqserver/api/status

Test without Host header:

curl -v http://end-server-ip:port/cpqserver/api/status