Regarding F5 Monitoring for Access Gateway SPS

Products

• SITEMINDER

Issue/Introduction

Currently we have a basic TCP/IP checks on our F5 load balancer monitoring our Siteminder Access Gateway Servers.   We'd like to be able to configure the F5 Load Balancer to check on the state of the Access Gateway Server at the application by performing HTTP IsAlive checks.

 

Environment

Release : Any

Component : Siteminder Access Gateway

Resolution

1) Created a dummy HTML file and named it "IsAlive.htm".
2) Populated the file with 'ipsum lorum' content:

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<!-- lorem ipsum is a lot of debug text without practical meaning ment to help quickly visualize what a presentation layout would look like once text is present -->

3) Created the following directory on the Access Gateway Server:

<Install_Dir>\CA\secure-proxy\Tomcat\webapps\affwebservices\IsAlive\

4) Placed the "IsAlive.htm" file within the newly created \IsAlive\ directory 

5) Modified the Access Gateway ACO

IgnoreUrl=/affwebservices/IsAlive

6) Restarted Access Gateway

RESULT:

Access Gateway Running: GET Request to [HTTP://<host>.<Domain>.com/affwebservices/IsAlive/IsAlive.htm] returns an HTTP 200 (OK)

Access Gateway Stopped: GET Request to [HTTP://<host>.<Domain>.com/affwebservices/IsAlive/IsAlive.htm] returns an HTTP 40x (Client Error)