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ACE HTTPS Probe problem related to dns

ppalmerjr
Level 1
Level 1

I have a customer who is requesting a https probe to query their web application and I'm having some issues.

Probe configuration is below

probe https HTTPS

  interval 60

  recieve 30

  ssl version TLSv1

  request method get url /total/probe.aspx

  expect status 200 200

  connection term forced

Evertime I apply the probe to the server farm I receive a status code of 404.  I've been back and forth with the server guy and he informs that I cannot send out a request to the server directly to the IP and it has to use the hostname.

In other words, the server will not answer to

https://10.10.10.10/total/probe.aspx

and will only answer to

https://<dns hostname>/total/probe.aspx

Does anyone know if there is anything I can do in the ACE to fix this or does he have to modify his web server?

Thanks in advance.

PP

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ciscocsoc
Level 4
Level 4

Hi,

In the probe definition you can specify an HTTP header value:

probe https HTTPS

...

header Host header-value www.whatever.com

HTH

Cathy

I have this probe applied to a serverfarm of 5 servers.  How would I do this header host command to reflect the different url's of each rserver?

In other words....

https://testserver1.test.domain/total/probe.aspx

https://testserver2.test.domain/total/probe.aspx

https://testserver3.test.domain/total/probe.aspx

etc..

I'm thinking that you are saying to do this?

probe https HTTPS

  interval 60

  recieve 30

  ssl version TLSv1

  request method get url /total/probe.aspx

  expect status 200 200

  header host header-value "test.domain"

  connection term forced

> I'm thinking that you are saying to do this

Correct.

The HTTP header information only has a tenuous connection with the IP address of the server. The probe is sent to the IP address of each rserver in the serverfarm with the host header set to the DNS name of the site. Each rserver has to provide the webpage for https://test.domain/total/probe.aspx (in your example).

Kind Regards

Cathy

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