[Thinlinc-technical] How to monitor vsmserver remotely

[Pierre Ossman]

On Mon, 15 Jul 2013 08:52:40 +0200
Rafael Ostertag <rafael.ostertag at math.uzh.ch> wrote:

> Hi list
> 
> I'm wondering, what is the best way to monitor vsmserver (9000/tcp) 
> remotely? Since it speaks HTTP, I'm thinking about a HTTP request which 
> returns a successful 2xx, but cursory tests with wget only produced 400.
> 
> Any hints?
> 

In order to get a successful response back you'd have to make a
completely proper API call. If you're just checking that the service is
up and running, a 400 response should be quite sufficient. If the
service is down they you would just get a connection refused.

Rgds
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