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roykidder
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Mar 13, 2014

Monitor question: 302 after login on Solarwinds Orion

I'm trying to write a health monitor (LTM 11.4.1 HF2) for the Solarwinds Orion web interface where I'm passing login credentials in the URI portion of the GET which looks like this:

 

GET /Orion/Login.aspx?AccountID=username&Password=password

 

Upon success of that, the IIS server sends back a 302 redirecting to another URI (/Orion/SummaryView.aspx?ViewID=1). My health monitor doesn't seem to work no matter what receive string I look for. If I have it look for content in the second URI, it fails. If I have it look for "Object moved" in the first URI, it fails. My send string looks like this:

 

GET /Orion/Login.aspx?AccountID=username&Password=password HTTP/1.1\nHost: hostname.fqdn\r\nConnection: close\r\n\r\n

 

If anyone has any experience with Solarwinds (or similar 302 redirects after login) send and receive string monitors, I'd certainly appreciate any pointers.

 

Thanks in advance, Roy

 

  • nathe's avatar
    nathe
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    Roy,

    Two things, I'd change the monitor to a HTTP 1.1 one, as default f5 health monitors are v0.9.

    So something like this:

    GET /Orion/Login.aspx?AccountID=username&Password=password HTTP/1.1\r\nHost:\r\nConnection: Close\r\nAccept: /\r\n\r\n

    Hopefully my syntax is correct here.

    Also, take a look at the following link as it may help Troubleshooting Health Monitors

    Hope this helps,

    N

  • Yes, the redirect page returns:

     

    Object moved

     

    Object moved to .

     

    Prior to realizing there was a redirect, I looked for the string "Orion Summary Home" which is content from the page the browser is redirect to. Then I tried "Object moved" for the receive string yet the monitor still failed.

     

    Thanks, Roy

     

  • nathe's avatar
    nathe
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    Roy, the receive string when monitoring a client with a redirect should be something on the redirect page. I see you've tested this and it doesn't work.

     

    Have you tried running Curl from the f5 to see what is being returned on the redirect page?

     

    Rgds

     

    N