HTTP health-checks are now internally based on tcp-checks. Of course all the
configuration parsing of the "http-check" keyword and the httpchk option has
been rewritten. But the main changes is that now, as for tcp-check ruleset, it
is possible to perform several send/expect sequences into the same
health-checks. Thus the connect rule is now also available from HTTP checks, jst
like set-var, unset-var and comment rules.
Because the request defined by the "option httpchk" line is used for the first
request only, it is now possible to set the method, the uri and the version on a
"http-check send" line.
Instead of having 2 independent integers, used as boolean values, to know if the
expect rule is invered and to know if the matching regexp has captures, we know
use a 32-bits bitfield.
All tcp-check rules are now stored in the globla shared list. The ones created
to parse a specific protocol, for instance redis, are already stored in this
list. Now pure tcp-check rules are also stored in it. The ruleset name is
created using the proxy name and its config file and line. tcp-check rules
declared in a defaults section are also stored this way using "defaults" as
proxy name.
For now, all tcp-check ruleset are stored in a list. But it could be a bit slow
to looks for a specific ruleset with a huge number of backends. So, it could be
a good idea to use a tree instead.
It is now possible to specified the healthcheck status to use on success of a
tcp-check rule, if it is the last evaluated rule. The option "ok-status"
supports "L4OK", "L6OK", "L7OK" and "L7OKC" status.
A shared tcp-check ruleset is now created to support agent checks. The following
sequence is used :
tcp-check send "%[var(check.agent_string)] log-format
tcp-check expect custom
The custom function to evaluate the expect rule does the same that it was done
to handle agent response when a custom check was used.
A share tcp-check ruleset is now created to support SPOP checks. This way no
extra memory is used if several backends use a SPOP check.
The following sequence is used :
tcp-check send-binary SPOP_REQ
tcp-check expect custom min-recv 4
The spop request is the result of the function
spoe_prepare_healthcheck_request() and the expect rule relies on a custom
function calling spoe_handle_healthcheck_response().
A shared tcp-check ruleset is now created to support LDAP check. This way no
extra memory is used if several backends use a LDAP check.
The following sequance is used :
tcp-check send-binary "300C020101600702010304008000"
tcp-check expect rbinary "^30" min-recv 14 \
on-error "Not LDAPv3 protocol"
tcp-check expect custom
The last expect rule relies on a custom function to check the LDAP server reply.
A share tcp-check ruleset is now created to support MySQL checks. This way no
extra memory is used if several backends use a MySQL check.
One for the following sequence is used :
## If no extra params are set
tcp-check connect default linger
tcp-check expect custom ## will test the initial handshake
## If the username is defined
tcp-check connect default linger
tcp-check send-binary MYSQL_REQ log-format
tcp-check expect custom ## will test the initial handshake
tcp-check expect custom ## will test the reply to the client message
The log-format hexa string MYSQL_REQ depends on 2 preset variables, the packet
header containing the packet length and the sequence ID (check.header) and the
username (check.username). If is also different if the "post-41" option is set
or not. Expect rules relies on custom functions to check MySQL server packets.
A shared tcp-check ruleset is now created to support postgres check. This way no
extra memory is used if several backends use a pgsql check.
The following sequence is used :
tcp-check connect default linger
tcp-check send-binary PGSQL_REQ log-format
tcp-check expect !rstring "^E" min-recv 5 \
error-status "L7RSP" on-error "%[check.payload(6,0)]"
tcp-check expect rbinary "^520000000800000000 min-recv "9" \
error-status "L7STS" \
on-success "PostgreSQL server is ok" \
on-error "PostgreSQL unknown error"
The log-format hexa string PGSQL_REQ depends on 2 preset variables, the packet
length (check.plen) and the username (check.username).
A share tcp-check ruleset is now created to support smtp checks. This way no
extra memory is used if several backends use a smtp check.
The following sequence is used :
tcp-check connect default linger
tcp-check expect rstring "^[0-9]{3}[ \r]" min-recv 4 \
error-status "L7RSP" on-error "%[check.payload(),cut_crlf]"
tcp-check expect rstring "^2[0-9]{2}[ \r]" min-recv 4 \
error-status "L7STS" \
on-error %[check.payload(4,0),ltrim(' '),cut_crlf] \
status-code "check.payload(0,3)"
tcp-echeck send "%[var(check.smtp_cmd)]\r\n" log-format
tcp-check expect rstring "^2[0-9]{2}[- \r]" min-recv 4 \
error-status "L7STS" \
on-error %[check.payload(4,0),ltrim(' '),cut_crlf] \
on-success "%[check.payload(4,0),ltrim(' '),cut_crlf]" \
status-code "check.payload(0,3)"
The variable check.smtp_cmd is by default the string "HELO localhost" by may be
customized setting <helo> and <domain> parameters on the option smtpchk
line. Note there is a difference with the old smtp check. The server gretting
message is checked before send the HELO/EHLO comand.
A shared tcp-check ruleset is now created to support ssl-hello check. This way
no extra memory is used if several backends use a ssl-hello check.
The following sequence is used :
tcp-check send-binary SSLV3_CLIENT_HELLO log-format
tcp-check expect rbinary "^1[56]" min-recv 5 \
error-status "L6RSP" tout-status "L6TOUT"
SSLV3_CLIENT_HELLO is a log-format hexa string representing a SSLv3 CLIENT HELLO
packet. It is the same than the one used by the old ssl-hello except the sample
expression "%[date(),htonl,hex]" is used to set the date field.
A share tcp-check ruleset is now created to support redis checks. This way no
extra memory is used if several backends use a redis check.
The following sequence is used :
tcp-check send "*1\r\n$4\r\nPING\r\n"
tcp-check expect string "+PONG\r\n" error-status "L7STS" \
on-error "%[check.payload(),cut_crlf]" on-success "Redis server is ok"
It is now possible to set a custom function to evaluate a tcp-check expect
rule. It is an internal and not documentd option because the right pointer of
function must be set and it is not possible to express it in the
configuration. It will be used to convert some protocol healthchecks to
tcp-checks.
Custom functions must have the following signature:
enum tcpcheck_eval_ret (*custom)(struct check *, struct tcpcheck_rule *, int);
A list of variables is now associated to each tcp-check ruleset. It is more a
less a list of set-var expressions. This list may be filled during the
configuration parsing. The listed variables will then be set during each
execution of the tcp-check healthcheck, at the begining, before execution of the
the first tcp-check rule.
This patch is mandatory to convert all protocol checks to tcp-checks. It is a
way to customize shared tcp-check rulesets.
This option defines a sample expression, evaluated as an integer, to set the
status code (check->code) if a tcp-check healthcheck ends on the corresponding
expect rule.
These options define log-format strings used to produce the info message if a
tcp-check expect rule fails (on-error option) or succeeds (on-success
option). For this last option, it must be the ending rule, otherwise the
parameter is ignored.
It is now possible to specified the healthcheck status to use on error or on
timeout for tcp-check expect rules. First, to define the error status, the
option "error-status" must be used followed by "L4CON", "L6RSP", "L7RSP" or
"L7STS". Then, to define the timeout status, the option "tout-status" must be
used followed by "L4TOUT", "L6TOUT" or "L7TOUT".
These options will be used to convert specific protocol healthchecks (redis,
pgsql...) to tcp-check ones.
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A global list to tcp-check ruleset can now be used to share common rulesets with
all backends without any duplication. It is mandatory to convert all specific
protocol checks (redis, pgsql...) to tcp-check healthchecks.
To do so, a flag is now attached to each tcp-check ruleset to know if it is a
shared ruleset or not. tcp-check rules defined in a backend are still directly
attached to the proxy and not shared. In addition a second flag is used to know
if the ruleset is inherited from the defaults section.
An extra parameter for tcp-check send rules can be specified to handle the
string or the hexa string as a log-format one. Using "log-format" option,
instead of considering the data to send as raw data, it is parsed as a
log-format string. Thus it is possible to call sample fetches to customize data
sent to a server. Of course, because we have no stream attached to healthchecks,
not all sample fetches are available. So be careful.
tcp-check set-var(check.port) int(8000)
tcp-check set-var(check.uri) str(/status)
tcp-check connect port var(check.port)
tcp-check send "GET %[check.uri] HTTP/1.0\r\n" log-format
tcp-check send "Host: %[srv_name]\r\n" log-format
tcp-check send "\r\n"
Since we have a session attached to tcp-check healthchecks, It is possible use
sample expression and variables. In addition, it is possible to add tcp-check
set-var rules to define custom variables. So, now, a sample expression can be
used to define the port to use to establish a connection for a tcp-check connect
rule. For instance:
tcp-check set-var(check.port) int(8888)
tcp-check connect port var(check.port)
With this option, it is now possible to use a specific address to open the
connection for a tcp-check connect rule. If the port option is also specified,
it is used in priority.
With this option, it is possible to establish the connection opened by a
tcp-check connect rule using upstream socks4 proxy. Info from the socks4
parameter on the server are used.
Register the custom action rules "set-var" and "unset-var", that will
call the parse_store() command upon parsing.
These rules are thus built and integrated to the tcp-check ruleset, but
have no further effect for the moment.
Add a dedicated vars scope for checks. This scope is considered as part of the
session scope for accounting purposes.
The scope can be addressed by a valid session, even embryonic. The stream is not
necessary.
The scope is initialized after the check session is created. All variables are
then pruned before the session is destroyed.
Create a session for each healthcheck relying on a tcp-check ruleset. When such
check is started, a session is allocated, which will be freed when the check
finishes. A dummy static frontend is used to create these sessions. This will be
useful to support variables and sample expression. This will also be used,
later, by HTTP healthchecks to rely on HTTP muxes.
The loop in tcpcheck_main() function is quite hard to understand. Depending
where we are in the loop, The current_step is the currentely executed rule or
the one to execute on the next call to tcpcheck_main(). When the check result is
reported, we rely on the rule pointed by last_started_step or the one pointed by
current_step. In addition, the loop does not use the common list_for_each_entry
macro and it is thus quite confusing.
So the loop has been totally rewritten and splitted to several functions to
simplify its reading and its understanding. Tcp-check rules are evaluated in
dedicated functions. And a common for_each loop is used and only one rule is
referenced, the current one.
After the configuration parsing, when its validity check, an implicit tcp-check
connect rule is added in front of the tcp-check ruleset if the first non-comment
rule is not a connect one. This implicit rule is flagged to use the default
check parameter.
This means now, all tcp-check rulesets begin with a connect and are never
empty. When tcp-check healthchecks are used, all connections are thus handled by
tcpcheck_main() function.
To allow reusing these blocks without consuming more memory, their list
should be static and share-able accross uses. The head of the list will
be shared as well.
It is thus necessary to extract the head of the rule list from the proxy
itself. Transform it into a pointer instead, that can be easily set to
an external dynamically allocated head.
Parse back-references in comments of tcp-check expect rules. If references are
made, capture groups in the match and replace references to it within the
comment when logging the error. Both text and binary regex can caputre groups
and reference them in the expect rule comment.
[Cf: I slightly updated the patch. exp_replace() function is used instead of a
custom one. And if the trash buffer is too small to contain the comment during
the substitution, the comment is ignored.]
The rbinary match works similarly to the rstring match type, however the
received data is rewritten as hex-string before the match operation is
done.
This allows using regexes on binary content even with the POSIX regex
engine.
[Cf: I slightly updated the patch. mem2hex function was removed and dump_binary
is used instead.]
Allow declaring tcpcheck connect commands with a new parameter,
"linger". This option will configure the connection to avoid using an
RST segment to close, instead following the four-way termination
handshake. Some servers would otherwise log each healthcheck as
an error.
Some expect rules cannot be satisfied due to inherent ambiguity towards
the received data: in the absence of match, the current behavior is to
be forced to wait either the end of the connection or a buffer full,
whichever comes first. Only then does the matching diagnostic is
considered conclusive. For instance :
tcp-check connect
tcp-check expect !rstring "^error"
tcp-check expect string "valid"
This check will only succeed if the connection is closed by the server before
the check timeout. Otherwise the first expect rule will wait for more data until
"^error" regex matches or the check expires.
Allow the user to explicitly define an amount of data that will be
considered enough to determine the value of the check.
This allows succeeding on negative rstring rules, as previously
in valid condition no match happened, and the matching was repeated
until the end of the connection. This could timeout the check
while no error was happening.
[Cf: I slighly updated the patch. The parameter was renamed and the value is a
signed integer to support -1 as default value to ignore the parameter.]
When receiving additional data while chaining multiple tcp-check expects,
previous inverse expects might have a different result with the new data. They
need to be evaluated again against the new data.
Add a pointer to the first inverse expect rule of the current expect chain
(possibly of length one) to each expect rule. When receiving new data, the
currently evaluated tcp-check rule is set back to this pointed rule.
Fonctionnaly speaking, it is a bug and it exists since the introduction of the
feature. But there is no way for now to hit it because when an expect rule does
not match, we wait for more data, independently on the inverse flag. The only
way to move to the following rule is to be sure no more data will be received.
This patch depends on the commit "MINOR: mini-clist: Add functions to iterate
backward on a list".
[Cf: I slightly updated the patch. First, it only concerns inverse expect
rule. Normal expect rules are not concerned. Then, I removed the BUG tag
because, for now, it is not possible to move to the following rule when the
current one does not match while more data can be received.]
Replace the generic integer with an enumerated list. This allows light
type check and helps debugging (seeing action = 2 in the struct is not
helpful).
