Hi All, I have a load balancing device that distributes http requests across a number of servers. I am trying to use Smokeping to monitor the individual server, and have run into a bit of a hurdle.
My scenario is as such www.mysite.com resolves to 5.5.5.5 On the backend that load balances to 2.2.2.1 2.2.2.2 2.2.2.3 2.2.2.4 ... Each IP address being an individual web server. Each of these web servers responds to a request made with a host header of www.mysite.com ... else nothing would work right? Echoping has the ability for me to specify a url as one of the "PROBE_CONF" options, but nowhere can I specify the IP address separately. My issue is that although I can specify the IP address of the host at level one of the config, I should be able to override the HTTP header in the probe config. This is what my example currently looks like -------------------------------------------- +++++ BackendWebServer1 menu = BackendWebServer1 title = My Server 1 probe = EchoPingHttp host = 2.2.2.1 ++++++ PROBE_CONF url = /somepage -------------------------------------------- The problem is that if I change the host to mysite.com I then query the incorrect IP. What would be brilliant is if I could do the following -------------------------------------------- +++++ BackendWebServer1 menu = BackendWebServer1 title = My Server 1 probe = EchoPingHttp host = 2.2.2.1 ++++++ PROBE_CONF url = / hostheader = www.MySite.com -------------------------------------------- Sorry for the long email, but any help is appreciated. P.S the problem may be that the echoping tool does not allow this parameter. Tools like check_http that are packaged with nagios do. Thanks Warrick -- Unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Help mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive http://www.ee.ethz.ch/~slist/smokeping-users WebAdmin http://www.ee.ethz.ch/~slist/lsg2.cgi
