Configuring the WSM using Device Manager

HTTPS/SSL server health checking  

You can configure the WSM to send an SSL client Hello packet and verify the contents of the server's Hello response to check the health of the SSL server. This SSLH health check uses the configured real server port.

The SSL enhanced health check behavior is summarized below:

• The WSM sends an SSL Hello packet to the SSL server.
• If it is up and running, the SSL server responds with a Server Hello message.
• The WSM verifies fields in the response and marks the service as being Up if the fields are OK.

During the handshake, the user and server exchange security certificates, negotiate an encryption and compression method, and establish a session ID for each session. To configure SSLH, see Configuring a health check for a real server group.

See also:

• About health checking
• Script-based health checking
• Direct server return health checking
• ICMP health checking
• ARP health checking
• Link health checking
• TCP health checking
• Modifying the health check interval and retries
• Application health checking
• About health checking