Is there any Keep Alive method for SplunkWeb in LB environment ?

[mzorzi]

I have a pair of Search Servers A + B , these are fronted by a Load Balancer so the users just go to a single IP Address and could get routed to either web server.

We want the Load Balancer to perform simple keep alive checking on the two Search Servers. I thought I could achieve this by dropping in a simple keepAlive.html file for the LB to check.

I have tried placing this in /share/splunk/search_mrsparkle/exposed and having the LB attempt to retrieve it using /static/keepAlive.html , however splunkweb changes this to /en-GB/static/keepAlive.html and returns HTTP-401.

Is my approach incorrect, how would you go about this if possible ?

[dwaddle]

Is there any reason to not have the load balancer monitor the indexer's login page? (https://your.splunk.server:8043/en-US/account/login) That is as good of an indicator that splunkweb is running as anything else might be.

[Simeon]

The load balancer (LB) will need to be sticky to the search head you are searching. There is not any keep alive handling that I am aware of for this type of scenario. If you need to access some specific file on the server that does not require authentication, then you may need to use a different path. I don't believe that path will work.