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CirrusHTTP Monitor with authentication
CumulonimbusWhat authentication method is supported on the web server you are trying to monitor?
Basic Authentication and NTLM/NTLMv2 are supported methods under the HTTP and HTTPS Monitors.
For NTLM to work the web server needs to respond with a 401 response status with a WWW-Authenticate header set to NTLM when it tries to authenticate with Basic Authentication, which it will do first.
MathewBasic Authentication only
HamishCirrocumulus
Then it's likely that you forgot to tell the monitor what constitutes a valid response. Otherwise it takes the fact that the login failed to be evidence that the site is up.
- Mathew
is there any command to verify its actually trying to authenticate.
- Andy_McGrath
Curl is the best why to test, run one of the following from Bash:
curl http://name:passwd@1.1.1.1/full/path/to/file -H "Host: host.domain.com"or
curl -u name:passwd http://1.1.1.1/full/path/to/file -H "Host: host.domain.com"Alternatively you can do a tcpdump and capture the actual requests and responses from the F5 monitor traffic.
