[squid-users] Want to monitor squid, by pulling an image which is local.

Hiya :)

I would like to have via the primary squid instance a method to grab a
local image, to verify that squid is up and running.

I have F5's that I want to add a monitor, if the squid box goes down,
take it out of the vip.. However I can't have the monitor query the
squid box and have it pull an image from the cache_peer, since we at
times take those down for maintenance, and I much rather have squid
serve old content, than not be available at all.

So I'm trying to figure out, how I can put a static image on the squid
box itself,which allows me to pull that image through the standard
port, standard squid process.

monitorurl doesn't quite do it, since I'm looking for a test from a
3rd party device.

Thought about some acl's but not sure how to force it to grab the
local image/file.

Any ideas?
Tory

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Received on Thu May 26 2011 - 22:05:07 MDT