VMWARE VIEW health monitor SG/Connection broker mapping

Testing the View Servers

 

One of the best methods to test and make sure the servers are working is test run the following command from a client machin.

 

 

echo -en "GET /view/ HTTP/1.1\r\nHost: example.server.com\r\nConnection: Close\r\n\r\n" | nc 10.133.84.120 80

 

 

Success will return the following:

 

HTTP/1.1 200 OK

 

cache-control: no-cache

 

Content-Length: 1268

 

Expires: Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 GMT

 

Set-Cookie: JSESSIONID=16692AA68187DB39E1D5B69F3CBFCD6E; Path=/

 

Content-Type: text/html;charset=UTF-8

 

pragma: no-cache

 

Connection: close

 

Vary: Accept-Encoding

 

 

 

 

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If you are testing against HTTPS (443) servers it’s best to use openssl like this.

 

 

openssl s_client -crlf -connect 10.133.84.52:443

 

 

Success will return something like this:

 

CONNECTED(00000003)

 

depth=0 /O=VMware, Inc./OU=VMware View default certifcate/CN=view5-con1.view5.tc.f5net.com

 

verify error:num=20:unable to get local issuer certificate

 

verify return:1

 

depth=0 /O=VMware, Inc./OU=VMware View default certifcate/CN=view5-con1.view5.tc.f5net.com

 

verify error:num=21:unable to verify the first certificate

 

verify return:1

 

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Certificate chain

 

0 s:/O=VMware, Inc./OU=VMware View default certifcate/CN=view5-con1.view5.tc.f5net.com

 

i:/O=VMware, Inc./OU=VMware View default certifcate/CN=view5-con1.view5.tc.f5net.com

 

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Once you get this you’ll use the same string we used before.

 

GET / HTTP/1.1\r\nHost: view.view.tc.f5net.com\r\nConnection: Close\r\n\r\n

 

 

Success will return something like this:

 

HTTP/1.1 200 OK

 

cache-control: no-cache

 

Content-Length: 1268

 

Expires: Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 GMT

 

Set-Cookie: JSESSIONID=36941E985BCD22421591BD52FA6CA0BC; Path=/; Secure; HttpOnly

 

Content-Type: text/html;charset=UTF-8

 

pragma: no-cache

 

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In the end your monitor would look like this:

 

 

GET /view/ HTTP/1.1\r\nHost: HOSTFQDN\r\nConnection: Close\r\n\r\n

 

 

and you would expect a response string of

 

 

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