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DonJR_214047
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Nov 19, 2015

Help constructing a gtm monitor with a working curl statement

Hi,   First, thank you in advance for any assistance with this. This is my first post to DevCentral. I should add we are running 11.5.3 HF2.   I am trying to figure out how to use a gtm monit...
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Hi Brad,

 

Thank you for the quick reply. We have tried that, and the issue is that the cert on the server is set up for subject of DNS: webmail.corp.com which does not resolve to 10.1.1.1. Thus the server rejects the URI, and lets us know 10.1.1.1 is not a valid host name.

 

This situation is sort of like an SNI monitor but not entirely. I have tried using the EAV SNI monitors on Dev Central but can't format them appropriately for this particular URI. One of the issues is escaping out the & which I just placed the entire URL in quotes but you can also place the & in single quotes '&'. I need to not only be able to specify SNI, Response, and URI, but the Node and port as well.

 

A side from writing my own EAV for this, I was hoping a standard https monitor could be manipulated to work.

 

I'm at a loss on how to construct this appropriately.

 

Cheers,

 

Don

 

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Nov 19, 2015
Have you done a tcpdump of the monitor to prove your theory? The monitor about does not send 10.1.1.1 as the host header. The host header is in the end string. Are you saying your server requires SNI? That's a different story.