Re: Proxy

[Martin Pala]

Setting global proxy in Monit is not good solution - Monit is not web browser 
where you may want everything to go via proxy. Even if Monit is set to test 
some remote website via proxy, it may be also set to test local webservice 
running on the same machine or on internal network - in such case direct access 
is possible and proxy not wanted => Monit doesn't use "http_proxy" environment 
variable.

As mentioned, to test remote website via proxy you can use generic send/expect 
test. See the usage in Monit manual.

Martin



On 18 Dec 2013, at 16:55, Philip Waters <address@hidden> wrote:

> Trying to monitor the remote website through the proxy.
> 
> I understand the problem of the proxy not working, but say the proxy is 
> working properly: I have not been able to successfully test a remote host 
> through the proxy at all, and I know that the proxy is working otherwise 
> (wget can get the page and wget's output shows me the proxy is used).
> 
> This makes me wonder what monit uses to determine whether it needs to go over 
> proxy. If I use a tcp port 80 test, does it know it is a web request? or is 
> there a particular directive I need to use in monit.
> 
> What does monit look for? Is export http_proxy="proxy:port" sufficient? Or do 
> i need to do all the system-wide settings for each variety of distro. I 
> acknowledge this is in a lot of ways a "proxy for distro" question, but what 
> I wonder is what is monit coded to look for among the many ways proxy could 
> be configured.
> 
> If I intend the test to pass through the proxy am I required to use the 
> Maxforward directive (MAXFORWARD>=1). If so (that maxforward assumes 0 by 
> default), then that is my problem, and I will try it out. It is just good to 
> know I'm not experimenting towards futility.
> 
> Phil
> 
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> Please can you describe what exactly do you want to monitor? Is it the proxy 
> itself or the remote website health?
> 
> If you're testing via proxy and the request fails, then you cannot tell if 
> the problem is on the proxy itself or behind it (network, etc.), hence 
> testing other websites via proxy is suboptimal (due to extra indirection 
> level) - the only thing which you can test reliably is the proxy itself. If 
> you really want to make sure some site is generally available (not just via 
> your proxy), then you should definitely bypass the proxy and test directly. 
> The probe location depends what you really want to test - whether the network 
> or the service on the remote host itself.
> 
> To send proxy request you can use for example generic send/request test to 
> ask proxy for some specific page behind it, see manual for more details:
> http://www.mmonit.com/monit/documentation/monit.html#connection_testing
> 
> The HTTP request via proxy is similar to normal request, you just need to 
> specify full URL in the request.
> 
> 
> Regards,
> Martin
> 
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