Run the Health Probe to Check the Server Status

Using the ActivID Appliance Health Probe, you can check the status of the appliance for load balancing and to monitor software.

To access the ActivID Appliance Health Probe service, go to:

https://<appliance-hostname>/AIHealthCheck/probe

The possible codes returned by the service are:

  • HTTP Status-Code 200 − OK - the ActivID Appliance is functional
  • HTTP Status-Code 503 − Service is unavailable - the ActivID Appliance is not functional (that is, when the database is down, or it is not fully deployed, or stopped)

You can view the status code returned by the probe using the following command:

Copy 
curl -i https://<appliance-hostname>/AIHealthCheck/probe

It might also timeout if the server is not available.

The status is refreshed every seven seconds (the minimum interval).

If there is an issue, the watchdogs integrated in ActivID Appliance will restart the applications to recover the service and, if necessary, restart the ActivID Appliance itself.

In a load balancing configuration, if one of the servers is not functioning, the requests will stop being sent to this server. Network monitoring software will use the probe to switch the traffic to the other ActivID Appliance while the original ActivID Appliance is not working as expected.