On 9 September 2011 14:44, John Helliwell <[email protected]> wrote:
> Indeed, the httchk is expecting a HTTP response header. I think I can fool > it by installing a wrapper script on the target which inserts a valid HTTP > response header - there is an example of that at > http://sysbible.org/2008/12/04/having-haproxy-check-mysql-status-through-a-xinetd-script/ That could work. In case someone stumbles across this in the archives, it's worth mentioning that a mysql-specific health check does exist in the current versions of HAproxy and the hack described in the above URL is no longer needed *for mysql*. Nevertheless, the principle described could be used for your redis checks. Regards, Graeme.
