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Chris_123510
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Mar 30, 2016

Proxy Monitoring

We have tried to monitor our proxy servers a few different ways. The first way was to monitor going out to 4 different websites, and had it set to at least 2 up before the monitor marked the proxy s...
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Mar 30, 2016

What about id you create a http monitor? You could create a monitor that pass the proxy to reach a specific web page outside.

 

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    Chris_123510
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    Mar 30, 2016
    We initially had this configured, and when the webpages were unavailable, it marked our proxies down.
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    Steph_69890
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    Mar 30, 2016
    What about if you implement a web server on all of your proxies, then call a web page present on your proxies responsable to validate deeply your proxies (ex: php scripts that call you checks and return a string OK or ERROR depending of the result). That's what we doing with our web server. Check every AD, service on which we depend.