Puppet users - Sep 2013 - puppet healthcheck

Hi,

I want to put a loadbalancer in front of puppet, this LB includes a 
healtcheck so it knows not to send requests to a server that is down.
However the use of client certificates and pson make that a bit difficult, 
I should get puppet to return a 200 status message.

I already changed auth.conf to include:
path /status
auth any
method find
allow *

This allows a request on the status without a client certificate like this:
curl -ksS -H "Accept pson" 
https://puppetmaster.local:8140/production/status/no_key<https://dppuwjep001:8140/production/status/no_key>

But this still gives a 400 HTTP status error on the load balancer since I 
can''t get it to accept pson, meaning it marks the server as down.
Is there a way to get puppet to return a 200 HTTP status on some page, 
perhaps a custom page? So to please the LB.

I''m running puppet behind an apache with mod_passenger, and the LB is a
Cisco ACE

Best regards,
Steven

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Hi, I worked around the problem, the solution is documented at [1], not 
written by me.
Basically I use a bash script with curl in combination with xinetd and the 
loadbalancer allows to specify a different port for the health check.

Best regards,
Steven

[1] http://uberobert.com/puppet_master_health_check_haproxy/

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