Introduction
File Director features a dedicated website which can be used to monitor the health of File Director for the purposes of proactive monitoring or network load balancing.
Detail
Appliance Versions 3.x and Greater
The following URL is preferred and tests various components of File Director to ensure high availability.
http://<DN_FQDN:8001/Status
The URL will return a 'Success' response if all tests pass successfully:
- Web admin has been configured.
- Database has connectivity. (configured database)
- Application is responsive. (monitor can access /api/version)
- Web Services are running. (Apache and Tomcat)
- The admin console does not have the 'maintenance mode' flag selected
Example Responses
200 - Successful
{"status":"Success"}
200 - Failed
{"status":"Failed"}
As of File Director 4.1 update 2 it is also possible to force plain text output of the status, for compatibility with certain NLB devices which may try and download the JSON as opposed to read the status. To do this, use the following URL: http://<appliance>:8001/status?type=text&force_ok=true
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