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NimbostratusHow to monitor webproxies
We have a Virtual System working at layer 4 with a pool of webproxies to offer a specific http/https service to a corporate system. This pool give us a HA webproxies but we need to improve the monitor methods to check a couple of URL on Internet. Some of these web services on the Internet only answer authenticated requests by digital certificate. As we can't store this user digital certificate, we are trying to monitor only if the socket of this service is working or not.
I've tried to create a regular https monitor to verify this webservice on Internet through the node, but I have no success. Have anyone made a custom monitor to verify something like this?
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HamishCirrocumulus
For checking if the socket is open, just use a TCP monitor. Not an HTTP monitor.
Note that the HTTPS monitor understands how to provide a client-side cert. So you could dedicate a user/cert combination for monitoring if you really want to. I do...
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Marcelo_MartinsI was looking for some doc about customization this kind of monitor. I can not find any. Do you have something about it? What parameters could I use in "Send String" field? And in the "Receive String" field? What kind of attribute could I use to verify if the socket is open or not?
