[Chilli] CoovaChilli monitoring strategy

[Yvan BARTHÉLEMY]

I followed your advice and upgraded a testing server to coova-chilli
1.2.5. I'm now facing a new problem, the HTTP AAA is not working for
me anymore, In my hs.local, I have the following that seems correct:

uamaaaurl "https://127.0.0.1/cgi-bin/aaa-cgi"

However, when I type credentials, I obtain the message 'Username
and/or passowd was not valid', and in the log I have the following
message: 'redir.c: 2351: Radius request timed out'

Is there any compile or runtime option that might have change between
1.2.3 and 1.2.5 about HTTP AAA authentication ?

2010/11/10 David Bird <david at coova.com>:
> Upgrade. There were a couple "crashing" bugs in older 1.2.x versions.
> Also, the compile time option --enable-chilliredir will no longer
> automatically mean the chilli_redir process is forked off... you now
> have to also use --redir at runtime. So, it's safe to compile with
> --enable-chilliredir and you can make the --redir decision at runtime.
>
> On Tue, 2010-11-09 at 10:54 +0100, Yvan BARTHÉLEMY wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I have an installation of CoovaChilli 1.2.3 in production built using
>> the rpm spec available in the source package. In this configuration
>> the following flags are enabled:
>>
>> %configure \
>>         --disable-static \
>>         --enable-shared \
>>         --enable-largelimits \
>>         --enable-miniportal \
>>         --enable-chilliproxy \
>>         --enable-chilliredir \
>>         --enable-chilliscript \
>>         --with-poll \
>>         --with-curl \
>> %if %{!?_without_ssl:1}0
>>         --with-openssl \
>>         --enable-chilliradsec \
>> %endif
>>
>> The portal works and clients are able to connect using miniportal, but
>> for an unknown reason, the redirection sometimes stops working (we are
>> not able to reproduce this in our office so it is difficult to
>> troubleshot). We were able to workaround this using a shell script
>> that  fetches http://10.36.0.1:3990/www/coova.html every 5 minutes
>> using curl and that relaunches CoovaChilli when it gets no response.
>>
>> We are not happy with this solution as it involves some down time
>> between the detection and the restarting of the service.
>>
>> I believe that removing --enable-chilliredir might help to get rid of
>> the problem. When doing this we are not able to fetch
>> http://10.36.0.1:3990/www/coova.html or any coova-chilli url anymore.
>>
>> Do you know a way to fetch this url or to check redirection is working
>> when the compile flag --enable-chilliredir is off ?
>>
>> Many thanks in advance for any help or suggestion about this issue.
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