Troubleshooting SRM AIM HTTP/HTTPS Connection Problems
Article ID: 36979
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Issue:
The SRM AIM may return a non-successful status of an HTTP/HTTPS test when the same URL works fine in a standard Web Browser.
Environment
Any SRM AIM version monitoring an HTTP or HTTPS site.
Release: SEAUBC99000-12.7-Server Automation-Base Configuration
Component:
Resolution
The "wget" command is very useful in troubleshooting these types of problems. On their most basic levels, wget and the SRM AIM perform very similar operations, so this is generally a much better troubleshooting test than using a Web Browser. On Windows this must be run from a command prompt. On UNIX/Linux it can be run from a shell.
The following is the basic wget syntax that will generate very useful information:wget -v -S -o {LOG} -U {USER AGENT} --no-check-certificate --http-user={USER} --http-password={PASS} {URL}
Where:
{LOG} - path to desired log file
{USER AGENT} - the user agent to send to the Web Server - to simulate the SRM AIM's default User Agent, this will be either "Java/1.6.0_43" or "Java/1.7.0_72"
{USER} - username
{PASS} - password
Note: If a user/password is not required, then omit the --http-user={USER} --http-password={PASS} syntax.
{URL} - the target URL that should be downloaded/tested.
For example:wget -v -S -o c:\wget.log -U "Java/1.6.0_43" --no-check-certificate www.ca.com
The above command will generate 2 output files. The C:\wget.log and the page which is downloaded. In the case of the "root" of a web server, this will generally be the default page or document. IThe output file will be "index.html" by default (when the URL ends in a slash or with out specifying a document on the server). This file will be generated in the current working directory of the command prompt/shell.
The contents of the wget.log from the above command:
--2016-01-26 17:29:19-- http://www.ca.com/
Resolving www.ca.com... 23.76.122.199
Connecting to www.ca.com|23.76.122.199|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response...
HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently
Cache-Control: private
Content-Length: 0
Location: /us/default.aspx
Server: Microsoft-IIS/7.5
X-AspNet-Version: 4.0.30319
X-Powered-By: ASP.NET
X-ServerID-App: USWS83
X-UA-Compatible: IE=Edge,chrome=1
Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *
Access-Control-Allow-Methods: GET,POST,OPTIONS
Access-Control-Allow-Headers: X-Requested-With, Content-Type
Access-Control-Max-Age: 86400
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2016 22:29:14 GMT
Connection: keep-alive
Location: /us/default.aspx [following]
--2016-01-26 17:29:19-- http://www.ca.com/us/default.aspx
Reusing existing connection to www.ca.com:80.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response...
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Cache-Control: private
Content-Length: 21434
Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
Server: Microsoft-IIS/7.5
X-AspNet-Version: 4.0.30319
X-AspNetMvc-Version: 3.0
If-Modified-Since: 1/20/2016 9:36:38 AM
X-Powered-By: ASP.NET
X-ServerID-App: USWS82
X-UA-Compatible: IE=Edge,chrome=1
Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *
Access-Control-Allow-Methods: GET,POST,OPTIONS
Access-Control-Allow-Headers: X-Requested-With, Content-Type
Access-Control-Max-Age: 86400
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2016 22:29:14 GMT
Connection: keep-alive
Length: 21434 (21K) [text/html]
Saving to: ‘index.html’
0K .......... .......... 100% 1.11M=0.02s
2016-01-26 17:29:19 (1.11 MB/s) - ‘index.html’ saved [21434/21434]
As you can see above, the first request receives an HTTP status code of 301/redirected. The redirection points to http://www.ca.com/us/default.aspx and which is served successfully with the HTTP status code of 200 and the file is downloaded successfully as index.html.
Sometime Web Sites/Servers are coded/configured to block certain (or all but "known good") User Agents. If wget fails with the Java User Agent, try omitting the "-U" parameter (which will set it to wget's default of "Wget/{wget version}" and/or change it to a more standard User Agent.
If wget is successful but the SRM AIM is still having problems monitoring HTTP/HTTPS site, open a case with CA Support providing all details accordingly (if you haven't already). Be sure to include the wget.log, and a zip of the port161 or port1691 directory.
Additional Information
"Official" wget builds for Windows can be found here: https://eternallybored.org/misc/wget/
This is linked from http://www.gnu.org/software/wget/ -> http://wget.addictivecode.org/FrequentlyAskedQuestions#download -> https://eternallybored.org/misc/wget/
Most Linux distributions ship with a wget package installed, or can easily install wget via that distributions package manager.
User Agent information:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_agent
http://www.useragentstring.com/
HTTP Status code information:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_HTTP_status_codes
Uncomment the following in the svcrsp.cf and recycle SystemEDGE Agent (Java will emulate a web browser when making the connection to the website):
#useragent="Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MSIE 9.0; Windows NT 7.1; Trident/5.0)"
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