Re: Check URL Remotely

Chris,

 

When you define a health check it is not directly related to a server in a farm so you can check from WSD/AppDirector any device in your network, including remote ones, using the destination IP of the check and the gateway to be used by the check.  So the response to your question is yes.

 

Here you have a list of methods (available in the last AppDirector version)  you can use for health check:

 

ARP                                    

Citrix App Browsing                    

Citrix ICA                             

DHCP                                   

Diameter                               

DNS                                    

FIX                                    

FTP                                    

HTTP                                   

IMAP4                                  

LDAP                                   

LDAPS                                  

NNTP                                   

Physical Port                          

Ping                                   

POP3                                   

Radius Accounting                      

Radius Authentication                  

RTSP                                   

SIP TCP                                

SIP UDP                                

SMTP                                   

SNMP                                   

SSL Hello                              

HTTPS                                  

TCP Port                               

TCP User Defined                       

UDP Port                               

TFTP                                   

UDP User Defined

 

Thanks,

Juan Carlos

 

De: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] En nombre de Chris Miller
Enviado el: miércoles, 28 de octubre de 2009 16:09
Para: 'Load Balancing Mailing List'
Asunto: Re: [load balancing] Check URL Remotely

 

I agree, the message was difficult to understand.

 

Juan, I have a quick question. I think the WSD/AppDirectors do an excellent job of healthchecks. Do they have the ability to do those checks against other systems? For instance, can they send RADIUS requests to devices they aren't load balancing? Could they send HTTP requests to a Virtual IP rather than the Server IPs? Some folks might not be interested in being alerted if only one of the servers in the farm is down so the ability to send healthchecks against the farm IP would be valuable.

 

Chris Miller

 

 

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From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Juan Canete
Sent: Wednesday, October 28, 2009 9:59 AM
To: Load Balancing Mailing List
Subject: Re: [load balancing] Check URL Remotely

Chris,

 

Maybe you are correct regarding the request from Mr. Anand and I understood it incorrectly but I'm sorry with this kind of messages it is quite difficult to provide an accurate response. Now he has both cases and solutions.

 

Thanks,

Juan Carlos

 

De: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] En nombre de Chris Miller
Enviado el: miércoles, 28 de octubre de 2009 15:36
Para: 'Load Balancing Mailing List'
Asunto: Re: [load balancing] Check URL Remotely

 

Juan, he wants to check this from a remote machine though. The WSD will only check the server it's load balancing.

 

By running the check from an external machine, he's able to validate the network path, the farm status, and the server status. 

 

We have a couple WSDs still in production and are alerting on their health monitoring. We also, though, configured external monitoring so the requests are routing through the WSD.

 

Chris Miller

 

 

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From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Juan Canete
Sent: Wednesday, October 28, 2009 9:18 AM
To: Load Balancing Mailing List
Subject: Re: [load balancing] Check URL Remotely

Hi,

 

Using WSD there is no need for run any external script. Using the built-in health monitor feature you can define a health check using HTTP request and there you can define to look for a specific URL in the request (and other interesting parameters) and specific codes in the response from the Web Server. Every time the status response of the check changes (from success to fail and vice versa) you will get a trap from the device.

 

Hope this helps,

Juan Carlos Cañete

EMEA Technical Consultant Radware-Alteon

 

 

De: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] En nombre de anand kumar
Enviado el: miércoles, 28 de octubre de 2009 13:56
Para: Load Balancing Mailing List
Asunto: [load balancing] Check URL Remotely

 

Dear all,

 

  i want to check the URL working on Remote Computers ( Installed Windows)from my PC 

 

can i run any script

 

, can i do it through Radware WSD 3000

-- 
Anand.M

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